Ryan Gosling Quotes

There are too many people with a Father Flanagan philosophy that there is no such thing as a bad boy. There are plenty of bad boys.

Growing up, I think I was arrested 20-odd times by the Boston police. The good news is that I've been able to use those experiences in a lot of my roles, and that has been a blessing.

I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

One of the big things that if you've got a guy who is doing things that other people could view as evil or bad, then you've got to find the silver lining: you've got to find the thing that makes this guy a good guy.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Why cannot some of the money the government spends be used to take the children and youths who will become criminals, and educate them and put them into suitable environments so that they will become normal people?

I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

It's cool because you get to see that some of these women are there because they should be. They're actually not good people to be in society. And then, other people are there because they just made a really retarded mistake.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

Everybody does good things, but I'm talking about making major changes in the educational system that would impact an entire race. I'm talking about stopping these young gang members from killing one another. I'm talking about keeping prisons from overflowing.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.

The thing is, I never see my characters as psychopaths. I see them as really crippled victims who just happen to do bad things. And I never see them as bad guys; I see them as darker characters. I never see anything as good or bad; it's more light or dark, and the in-between is the grey.

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

There is no such thing as a bad boy. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example and bad thinking ... Understanding and not punishment is the solution for what is commonly called 'juvenile delinquency'

Every crime, even the most atrocious, may be justified.

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.