Tom Bateman Quotes

My wife would say I'm more Hyde than Jekyll!

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?

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.

We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?

I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides.

Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.

Jekyll is quite close to me, a little bit more shy. Whereas Hyde is a mish-mash of lots of things. I didn't realise I was borrowing it throughout the auditions - but Heath Ledger's Joker was an influence.

I am my favourite villain!

Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring against, as it were.

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

We all pretend, we all hide things, so why not take the concept to an extreme? That is the basic idea for the character of Dexter. Pretend to be human, while quietly and carefully living out the life of a monster on the side.

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

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

We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.

The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam's rib. Then there's Cain and Abel, twins at war. They were followed by Esau and Jacob, likewise divisible into hairy and smooth types.

We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his transformation in a process that's explained not through the supernatural but the natural or, at least, through biochemistry.