James Nesbitt Quotes

I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.

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.

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

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

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

I think that there's a little bit of bad in all of us.

People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

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.

No one knows who the real me is, so I can be a hundred different kinds of me.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

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

I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.