Villain Role Quotes

I would love to play a negative guy, play the villain. It is always interesting to have shades to your character.

I was stuck in a wheelchair playing this deranged villain. I felt this mass amount of rage at being so confined. I thought, 'What can I do that is the direct opposite of this situation?' The only thing I could think of was that I could sing and dance.

No one has approached me about Captain Marvel. But I don't know if I'd even want to play Captain Marvel. I would much rather play a villain and be nasty. It's more fun.

It's fun playing the villain now and again; villains are so simple, and you don't have to worry about the audience loving you.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

I do play villains.

I think the biggest challenges for franchises are keeping them fresh and exciting, and most times, you need a good bad guy to make that thing continually work, and sometimes they don't.

I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.

A superhero movie is only as great as its villains.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.

It was easy to be the bad guy throughout.

I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

When I go to Batman movies, I always think, 'Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.' especially as they got darker when they go to the Christian Bale era.

It's generally more fun playing the villain.

You know, it's always fun to play the bad guy at the end of the day.

I would think, as an actor, it's just much more fun to be the bad guy.

I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it.

I got to playing villains-I don't know how. I think it's like anything else, in the movies in particular that if you establish yourself as something and you're lucky enough to keep getting hired. You know, there are guys who play the guy who gets the girl, guys who are the best friend of that guy, there's the funny guy, the villain.

I'd like to be a superhero or a supervillain in a huge action movie. I want to play, like, the Joker or something like that.

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.

It's fun playing the bad guy. It comes naturally.

I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.

I love playing villains.

There's only so long you can play the silent type standing in the background. 'GoldenEye' was good for that. I was the villain: James Bond was doing all the heavy lifting. I liked that.

I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.