It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage.
The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.
I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.
A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.
You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.
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.
No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.
I didn't want to play a mediocre villain. I wanted to go full-on.
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.
Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.
I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.
Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.
No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call "hard but necessary" for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.
Every villain is a hero in his or her own mind.
You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.
I like creating villains.
I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.