Mary Steenburgen Quotes

I don't feel I have an alter ego.

My wife would say I'm more Hyde than Jekyll!

I don't see myself as having a dark side.

There is a dark side of me - it's the side people don't really get to see. I think everyone has that.

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

We all pretend, we all hide things, so why not take the concept to an extreme? That is the basic idea for the character of Dexter. Pretend to be human, while quietly and carefully living out the life of a monster on the side.

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

They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in my sleeve and think, 'Oh, Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!'

It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?

So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.

I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do.

No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.

Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

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

I think I appear very innocent and soft, but I'm actually very dark and edgy. It's a weird dichotomy.

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

Since many years, I realized that I have a darker side in me, even though I still believe I'm a very positive person. But still, there is still darkness that makes me write music and create in general, and it affects everything that I do. I believe it's a beautiful darkness.

I am my favourite villain!

I often play the quote-unquote bad guy, and I don't know why that is but it's just something that I've always hopefully been able to tap into. Maybe I'm harboring some deep, dark secrets that even I don't know about.

Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

I'm an actor. Never trust an actor, whatever their energy is. I suppose you guys see that side of me, but I'm sure there's plenty of people close to me who've seen the other one. I think if we're all honest with ourselves, we all know that internal rage.

I have a dark side. I think everyone does.