Isabel Gillies Quotes

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

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.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

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

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy', because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.

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

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.

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

Nobody is all good or bad.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

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 don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.

There are many movies which come with an attitude of black and white. I am good and you are bad. And there are many movies that are also trying to see the reality as it is or to discover what really is behind the character or events.

Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human.

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

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

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

Nobody's perfect, and everybody plays the heel and the baby face at times in real life.

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

I like to show the grey area in all my characters.

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.