Villain Quotations | Page 2

I look at some of the old villains in the Disney movies. If you really listen, you can hear some of the villains or some of the supporting characters, they use the voices over and over because they were so versatile in the way that they performed on voiceovers.

I know baseball has to have heroes and villains, and Cobb fits the role of villain perfectly. But the worst about Cobb is taken unquestionably. Here you have arguably the greatest player in the game's history, and he's become a cartoon. The feeling is you can do whatever you want with him, no matter how over the top it is.

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]

The rules I go by are: Always keep your villains bad, and keep the plot grounded and real. If you keep those stakes, the comedy will bounce off that and work.

I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it - it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.

There is no such thing as a villain. It's the others who are wrong. In as much, all villains are the same.

"The Cursed Wheel" is the heart of the whole year on All-Star. All-Star is a series that's largely compartmentalized so that every artist can reinvent a villain and have Batman go up against the villain in a way that's pretty singular.

That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.