Andie MacDowell Quotes

We're just kind of dark as humans, generally.

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.

For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

We human beings are very dark, strange things.

Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the mirror. A good long look, if you can bear it. See? Flawed's putting it mildly, isn't it?)

As an actor, I've given up judgement of evil, as long as it's human evil - we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we're capable of horrific things.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying.

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

I am sorry that as leader of the community, San Antonio and my name go together. But I guess human beings just aren't made of plastic and wiring and metal. They are made of flesh and blood and feelings.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

As in the infirmity of human nature, no man's actions are always what he likes to look back upon, as there are points in which he would wish that he had acted otherwise; so every man who tells his own story is under a temptation more or less to disguise the truth; and the more in proportion as his actions have been upon a larger scale, and his faults or mistakes therefore have been more flagrant.

I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.

We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.

I like people that are real people. Real people are broad; they make mistakes.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Everybody has a dark side. It's just we are very in touch with it.

We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.

Good people struggle against what's imperfect about them. The people that we call 'bad' people embrace that kind of stuff, embrace the darker side.

Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We're just a disease on this planet.