Jake LaMotta Quotes

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.

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

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

Men are not altogether bad or altogether good.

Nobody is all good or bad.

I went looking for embodiments of pure evil, but found ordinary people.

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.

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

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

There are the good and bad and every morrally ambiguous shade in between.

I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.

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

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people.

All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good.

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.