Evil Is Cool/Quotes

"A villain is someone that has to fool you all the time. He has many more factoids to his character, many more sides to his humor. He has to be charming, and witty, and decadent, and funny. He is much more fun to play."

—Vincent Price

It's always more fun to play a villain. It's just a well-known fact.

—Rowan Atkisnon about Blackadder.

That's the problem with heroes, really. Their only purpose in life is to thwart others. They make no plans, develop no strategies. They react instead of act. Without villains, heroes would stagnate. Without heroes, villains would be running the world. Heroes have morals. Villains have work ethic.

—Narration from The Last Avengers Story

"A song which, upon first hearing, made me realize that Evil gets all the really good music."

—Mark C. Langston

Come to the dark side. We have cookies.

—Tom3319

Tarquin: I will be immortalized forever!
Elan: As the Villain!

Tarqin: So what? Audiences always think the Villain is cooler than the Hero anyway. That is the beauty my son; If I Win, I get to be King. If I Lose, I get to be a LEGEND!!! I'll inspire a thousand more leaders to follow in my footsteps. And it will all be because of you, my son.

—The Order of the Stick

"So it really does say something when the one redeeming factor in your movie is the villain. |Seems like Disney does that a lot."

—The Nostalgia Chick, on Ursula and The Little Mermaid

"Aw, man! Why do the Decepticons get all the cool shit?!"

—Transfomers - Dark of the Moon

"Man, I love evil."

—James Hetfield of Metallica