Sheryl Lee Quotes

One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't believe in heroes. The best of people have a dark side and it's a constant struggle for the better side to survive and to thrive.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.

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.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart – and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains…an unuprooted small corner of evil. Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.

The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

My favorite Swamp Thing stories have always been about a man wrestling with monsters both internal and external.

Mike and I are always drawn to the idea that there is light and dark inside every being, rather than the old two-dimensional trope of good versus evil.

Everybody has a dark side. It's just we are very in touch with it.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring against, as it were.

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.

You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.