Paul Bettany Quotes

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.

In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.

There's no black and white in this world; it's all grey. That's what people are like! No one think they're a baddie. Everyone thinks they're trying to do their bit to make the world a better place.

I don't find anything black and white; I find grey in every person, and that is what excites me.

I like to stay away from writing about good versus evil. I think the world is more complicated.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're in a far more complicated world than that. I frankly think that this binary philosophy is actually a dangerous way to look at the world.

I like playing human beings - I don't believe in good or bad. I don't believe in black and white. I believe in different tonalities. I believe in different layers of emotions and states of mind. I believe in characters that can be human.

There is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners. The contemporary world, with its open wounds which affect so many of our brothers and sisters, demands that we confront every form of polarization which would divide it into these two camps.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons. I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

...Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.

You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.

Cops and criminals aren't that different. They just play by different sets of rules. And the lines get blurred. There's no such thing as 'right' and 'wrong.' There's always a grey area. There are always hypocrisies.

Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.

Gee, I wish that life were so black and white that you can't think of a single person who, you know, a good person who has done bad things.

The truth is complicated, and few people are actually monsters.

None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.

Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It's not black and white.