Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll."

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

One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't believe in heroes. The best of people have a dark side and it's a constant struggle for the better side to survive and to thrive.

I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, I put it all down - I'm out on a limb here, so watch my back.

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.

Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind that face never heard of razors, prayers, or the logic of the universe. You turn the mirror sideways and see your face reflected with a sinister left-hand twist, half mad and half sane.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.

Good people struggle against what's imperfect about them. The people that we call 'bad' people embrace that kind of stuff, embrace the darker side.

Obviously I have more in common with Jekyll, but there's something about Hyde.

Jekyll is quite close to me, a little bit more shy. Whereas Hyde is a mish-mash of lots of things. I didn't realise I was borrowing it throughout the auditions - but Heath Ledger's Joker was an influence.

I was a shy kid growing up, and I liked the idea of playing under this alter ego: like, I could be Ziggy Stardust, but I also knew I could never be Ziggy Stardust.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!

Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?

With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

If thou has not seen the devil, look at thine own self.

You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.

Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?

..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).