Daniel Handler Quotes

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

It's lovely. I hate it.

I'm a Gemini, so I'm very dual. I love something and I hate it at the same time, so that probably comes out in the lyrics.

All blessings are mixed blessings.

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

I like characters who are contradictory.

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.

I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire

I have fervently been on both sides of that question at different times.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

At home, I'm the silliest cornball who talks way too much and wants to be quiet and left alone at the same time.