Sean Penn Quotes

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

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.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

There's a duality in every man and every woman.

In real life, I don't think anybody is all one shade. People who are perceived to be really good have bad thoughts and inclinations that they sometimes act on, I'm sure, and people have different sides to themselves.

Mike and I are always drawn to the idea that there is light and dark inside every being, rather than the old two-dimensional trope of good versus evil.

Everyone has kind of done something that is bad and everyone has shades of good, but everyone has that darkness. There's always that little twinkle of darkness in everyone's eye.

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

Nobody's perfect, and everybody plays the heel and the baby face at times in real life.

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

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

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?

'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any of our heroes. Every antagonist in the DC Universe has a unique darkness, desire and drive. And the reason for being of 'Forever Evil' is to explore that darkness.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

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