Michael Giacchino Quotes

There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.

I think that most of us can identify with the change that happens to Bruce Banner. We all have a little of both inside us. I think this is an important theme in defining the character.

As a professional, I get in a dilemma between sport and entertainment. There's these two sides.

Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she's a little more edgy and snappy.

We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.

I lived a dual life, and when my dual life exploded, I began to feel much happier.

I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person.

One ever feels his twoness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled stirrings.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

I never really created a difference between Shaffer Smith, my actual name, and Ne-Yo. They are kind of one in the same. It's been a bit of a gift and a curse. As far as Shaffer Smith is concerned, I've never viewed myself as a celebrity.

It's always interesting to see somebody struggling with two different sides of their personality.

I think I was always bound to become two selves, if I wasn't already.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.

One of the things that I really enjoyed playing with Ender was how he's constantly struggling between his brother and his sister. It's like he's got two sides to him. And I've always wanted to play a darker character, and in this film and in the novel, Ender has his moments where he isn't a glorified hero.

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

There are always two sides to a person. CL is me, and so is Chaelin.

I felt like there were two people inside me. I was trying to be somebody I was not, and I was frustrated that people didn't know who I was.

There is no one who is more conflicted in the Marvel Universe, in my opinion, than Matthew Murdock. Is he his father's son, or is he the son of his father? Is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems in a court room, or is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems with his fist?

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.