Top 1200 Heroes And Villains Quotes & Sayings

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.

I don't believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.

This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.

Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human.

Unalloyed heroes and unalloyed villains make me suspicious.

We should tell the honest, painful stories of 9/11 because it dishonors the memory of heroes to invent a phony cast of villains when the actual terrorists were terrible enough to tear open this nation's heart.

We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.

Every character, before they are heroes or villains, they are human beings.

I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.

My heroes are all dead. I've lots of heroes. My mum is a hero. She had to put up with me and my dad. She is one of my heroes. Some of my friends are heroes. There are so many. But heroes usually let you down, don't they? There is people I admire, people I respect.

Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

Basketball games - and seasons - make great narratives; they feature distinct acts, heroes and villains, and guaranteed resolutions.

I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who play heroes are jerks. It's like people who play villains work out all their problems on screen, and then they're just really wonderful people.

I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.

Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

I was very interested in what happens to the husband when his wife goes missing, and how quickly they can be turned into heroes and villains.

Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face.

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.

Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just like, wow, so damn awesome.

Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

There are some characters in 'The Names' who are very much heroes and others who can only be called villains. But generally, as we get to know them, we see most of the characters are, or at least become, quite nuanced.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

It's a movie, OK? I went to see GONE WITH THE WIND, but did I really believe there was a guy named Rhett Butler who said, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"? No. Movies need heroes and villains, and real life doesn't usually have heroes and villains. Real life has a lot of shades of gray, and moves have black and white even when they're in color.

I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don't necessarily see themselves as villains. Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He's doing what he needs to do.

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.

The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.

I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.

I'm a villain. But hey, villains have fans, too. They might have more fans than the heroes, and I'm OK with that.

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

If you look at the great superheroes in any universe, you will always find that they have the very best super villains opposing them. It's because they are foils; they are people that the heroes play off of.

So much in TV today, you don't get to feel empathetic for the villain. The villains are the villains and the heroes are the heroes. It's very black and white.

It was important to me that my heroes not be all good and my villains not be all bad.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

The famous names throughout history-be they heroes or villains-if they accomplished anything notable, they were passionate. Passion is what drives those who accomplish momentous feats, for good or evil.