Rebecca Hall Quotes

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.

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.

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

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 like to show the grey area in all my characters.

I like characters who are contradictory.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

In general, I like contradictions and complex situations.

I think the most interesting characters are those in which you can see both sides.

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.

Truth is always paradoxical.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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

I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.