RM Quotes

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

I'm full of contradictions.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

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

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions are what make characters interesting, and I've been lucky to be presented with characters who have a lot of contradictions.

At home, I'm the silliest cornball who talks way too much and wants to be quiet and left alone at the same time.

Even the things we are certain about are only an illusion. We are born with a female side and a male side, and these two sides are always fighting and challenging each other. This is why anything we want to do, we have the other side of telling us not to do it, to be careful about it.

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.

This inner strength we have, this desire to evolve and expand and explore, I do love that about humanity. At the same time, it's scary what it does on a global scale. I'm very much caught between the two.

I feel like humans, when you're faced with decisions, you can go up and down: duality.

The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.

I'm a Gemini, so I'm very dual. I love something and I hate it at the same time, so that probably comes out in the lyrics.

Everything was good. But it was awful, too.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.