“I have seen a great many things. I have attended all the world's worst disasters, and worked for the greatest of villains. And I've seen the greatest wonders. But it's still like I said it was: no one lives forever.”— Michael Petroni, Narrator / Death (voice), Roger Allam, imdb.com
“When one's young, it seems very easy to distinguish between right and wrong. But, as one gets older, it becomes more difficult. The villains and the heroes get all mixed up.”— Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, René Mathis, Giancarlo Giannini, imdb.com
“In the movies, villains always have British accents—even the Nazis! How is that fair?”— Ashley Wigfield, Brian Polk, Greg, Adam Campbell, imdb.com
“As comics writers we had to have villains in our stories. And once World War II started, the Nazis gave us the greatest villains in the world to fight against. It was a slam dunk.”— Stan Lee, reformjudaismmag.net
“Jimmy was the kind of guy that rooted for bad guys in the movies.”— Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Henry Hill, Ray Liotta, imdb.com
“You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.”— Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Harvey Dent / Two-Face, Aaron Eckhart, imdb.com
“The man I once was, Al, was not formidable, and I am but his shadow now. And yet I'd be put to use. A decoy, perhaps. A weight to drop on villains from above.”— Bernadette McNamara, Jack Langrishe, Brian Cox, imdb.com
“What if you’re not the hero? What if you’re just another villain? The real villain.”— Noah Hawley, Syd Barrett, Rachel Keller, imdb.com
“I always liked the most films with great villains and it feels like they started disappearing over the years. I love the monsters, I love Frankenstein, Dracula, King Kong, then there was Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees and now there’s no monsters, there’s no bad guys, it’s always li…”— Rob Zombie, comingsoon.net
“You talk about the weight of what you have to do, how you can handle it. A bad man, someone truly evil? They're light as a feather. They don't feel a thing.”— Scott M. Gimple, Michonne, Danai Gurira, imdb.com
“That is the precise line the Shakespearean evildoer could not cross. But the evildoer with ideology does cross it, and his eyes remain dry and clear.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“In movies, when the super villain tells his origin story I honestly get worried because I relate so hard.”— Anna Kendrick, twitter.com