Washed Out Quotes

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

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

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

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

I think people have a hard time dealing with a bunch of things at once. They can't have something be disturbing and funny at the same time. They can't have that kind of combination. Which is weird to me because I feel complicated about most things.

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

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.

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.

Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

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

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.

So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.

In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

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

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

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.

It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

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