Marilyn French Quotes

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

I like characters who are contradictory.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that you see. Oh, but I loved to play ball. I loved the physical aspect. So you have one leg in one field, and one leg in the other and you're nowhere.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

It's not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.