Jennifer Winget Quotes

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.

I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

People are three-dimensional. They're not good or bad. They're not righteous or unrighteous. They are a million different things.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

You don't have people who are monsters and only do bad. There's good and bad for everybody. It's all a spectrum.

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

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested.

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

People are complicated. People have secrets. It doesn't make them good people or bad people.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.