Chris Claremont Quotes

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.

Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

I think I appear very innocent and soft, but I'm actually very dark and edgy. It's a weird dichotomy.

I have fervently been on both sides of that question at different times.

It's always interesting to see somebody struggling with two different sides of their personality.

Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits.

When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.

I'm not sure if I'd call myself an extrovert. I think I'm a bit contradictory. I like being endearing and venomous at the same time. I guess it's one part of myself fighting against the other part, proving that I'm not that nice all the time.

I'm nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.

I felt like there were two people inside me. I was trying to be somebody I was not, and I was frustrated that people didn't know who I was.

In Arabic, 'Naseem' means a gentle breeze. But inside the guy's a monster.

Every soul is a battlefield.

He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.