Isaiah Washington Quotes

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

The old world was good guys and bad guys. The new world is gray guys.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.

A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

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

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

I like to show the grey area in all my characters.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

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

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.