Sarah Paulson Quotes

Nobody is all good or all bad.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

I think that there's a little bit of bad in all of us.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

There is good and bad in everyone.

Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)

So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

Man must become better and more evil.

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.