Elizabeth Kostova Quotes

I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

There's a dark side to everything.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

I like characters who are contradictory.

'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

The darker the character, the more interesting.

When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

There's a duality in every man and every woman.

I love that everyone on 'Scream Queens' has a moment where they are the hero, and they are the villain.

The character of Cable is complex.

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.

People are three-dimensional. They're not good or bad. They're not righteous or unrighteous. They are a million different things.

I always felt like Azula and Long Feng were much more interesting villains and three-dimensional characters than Ozai, who was just sort of a big jerk. Like a really big jerk, but not very complex or human.

Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It's not black and white.

I think the most interesting characters are those in which you can see both sides.

If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.