Colin Hanks Quotes

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.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.

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

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

Good or bad is what we tend to want to affix to people, but we're all complicated.

[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

Everyone is normal until you get to know them.

People are complicated. People have secrets. It doesn't make them good people or bad people.

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?

I always saw two sides of life. I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has.

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?

I think we all have light and dark inside us.