Mark Gatiss Quotes

George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

In the movie 'Star Trek 3: The Return of Spock,' I'm a really bad Klingon, and I really enjoyed playing that - somebody who's totally unscrupulous. It's like he was not genetically equipped to feel compassion or sensitivity. Just outright evil without apology.

I love Robin Wright's character in 'House of Cards' because she's a bona fide villain. She's a not-nice person in a believable way; you can see her working in the world.

I want to be the bad guy.

I like being a bad guy.

I'm not an evil person. Nobody's really evil.

Deathstroke is a villain. Don't come to the book with any expectations that he will, in any way or sense or form, act heroically. He's a bad guy, and that's the fun of it.

If you are the heel, and if you are doing your job right, you are most hated.

I prefer a real villain to a false hero.

If you look back on my career, I scared a lot of people with my villainous role in 'Naam.'

Being good or evil has nothing to do with religion.

For me, playing a really bad character is about figuring out what brought the person to where we need him.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

Here’s the life lesson I’ve learned, Fifi: Some people are born to play the hero, and some are born to play the bad guy. Fighting your destiny only makes life harder than it needs to be. Besides, people remember the villain long after they’ve forgotten the hero.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

All the devils respect virtue.

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.

There are days when you just don't feel all that evil." You don't become a world-class villain overnight." -Dr. Impossible

What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.

Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck. Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney ever created.

Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.