Werner Herzog Quotes

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.

I think the James Bond thing has sailed. But of course I would want to be a Bond villain. They are great parts. I think it's highly unlikely, but one can always dream.

Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to pay me to do, I'm happy to do it!

I'd love to be some sort of villain in a big-budget action movie. Or a superhero franchise. That'd be rad.

Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge. More than anything, for me as an actor, it's about challenging myself and doing as many different things as I can.

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

The best part of a great movie is a great villain and I usually have a tendency to root for the bad guy.

In episodic television you'll have a good guy who's on every week and that's his show! He's the regular on it, and you're not going to be "gooder" than he is; I mean, he's the guy who's got to solve your problem! So if you're playing a good guy, you have to have a problem, and he's going to solve it for you. And the only really strong dramatic part is the heavy, because the meaner and crueler and rottener you are, the better the good guy looks when he whips ya' at the end because he always is gonna whip ya! So, the best dramatic guest shot is the heavy.

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

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.

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

Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting.

Some of the best bad guys in movies are funny and charming.

I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.

I have played my fair share of bad guys, or at least the nemesis.

You never forget your greatest foe.

From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

Like the others though,[Donald] Trump thrives when he has a clear enemy.

The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

I find I am more interested in the villain-type roles because they can be so much more complex than just the villain. I don't think anybody sees them as evil per se. They show how close we are to one another. It's an untapped area of art. And I think, physically, I'm not going to play the hero.

I always root for the bad guy and I don't think you have a great movie without a great villain.