Ryan Gosling Quotes

There's an honesty to Clark, Kal-El - Kal-El's the better way of saying it because he is both Superman and Clark - there's an honesty to him which crosses over on both - I don't like to use the word 'identities,' but I will because I can't think of a better one. So, it is not that tough to make that swap and change.

It's almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.

My wife would say I'm more Hyde than Jekyll!

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one.

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

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

For the people that I love I only have one face but for some people we can't have one face.

Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible evil of all is hypocrisy. It's this idea that there are those who do bad and there are those who do good, when, in fact, even the people who supposedly do good are saying they do good to mask the fact that they do evil.

Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.

Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.

Not to get too depressing, I've always been a slight whirling dervish in my life. I've always been at once a very spritely and energetic hilarious lady, but at the same time there is an equal dark side that's as comparable to the jovial - constantly walking on the high wire trying to figure out who to be each day.

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

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.

I've spent so much time in that makeup that I'm now unrecognizable. The business doesn't know who I am.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

The hardest thing in the world to play is something close to myself.

As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand know what your left hand does in that line of business. It will prove a failure.... It is a greater strain than any soul can long endure. When you get God to pulling one way, and the devil the other, each having his feet well braced,--to say nothing of the conscience sawing transversely,--almost any timber will give way.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and how spectacularly we contort ourselves before our own eyes, and the eyes of others...And all for what? To hide what? To make people believe what?

Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.

I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.