Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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

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.

'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.

No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.

Nobody is all good or bad.

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

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

Humanity has both its beautiful and its ugly sides.

If there's a theme to where I'm at in my life, it's that 'warts and all' is actually my superpower. Just like you, I'm messed up and I'm capable. I'm this and that.

I am like any other human being; I am full of different sides.

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.

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.

In life, we are all more than one thing, but for some reason in movies, you're either this or that. It reduces the complexity of a human being in so many ways.

A human being has a lot of sides, like a kind of diversity, so it's like a good side, a bad side, a crazy side, a normal side, like a man-ish side, a woman-ish side.

I don't like the terms 'positive' or 'negative,' as I think every person has good and bad in them. It's high time that we explore all these sides on television as humans.

I grew up as a Christian, and one of the many things in Christian mythology that did not dovetail with real life is that human beings are not monochromatic in their being.

There are a lot of grey areas in my personality. We all have them.

I personally feel that no human is a hero or a villain. All of us have our grey sides, and that is why grey interests me: because it's more human, more life-like.

People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.