Oscar Wilde Quotes

There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

You got good and bad people everywhere.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

I often find that people want to paint themselves one colour - like, 'I'm the baddie' - and they've always got this snarl on their face.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

We've progressed well beyond the four humors in the two thousand-odd years since Hippocrates, but we still haven't satisfied the urge to discover ways of sorting people into personalities and types and, in so doing, predict how they might act in specific situations.

In life, we are all more than one thing, but for some reason in movies, you're either this or that. It reduces the complexity of a human being in so many ways.

There is nothing called negative character. The negativity and positivity exists in all of us.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

One of my biggest fears when I see really bad people on T.V. is that I don't know how they got there.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don't necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things.

As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.

People read way too much into personalities and all that stuff.

I've been misconstrued because I speak in a certain way. I find it obnoxious how it defines you, somehow limits your ability to understand the human condition. You can't be allowed near emotions; you play these curling-lipped, haughty characters. This awful label - 'the posh Toby Stephens' - I'm not posh!