Christopher Lee Quotes

I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.

I think we all have a little dark side we keep under wraps.

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

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

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

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

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

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

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.

I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

I don't think you can be good in life without acknowledging the part of you that isn't good.

I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.

I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

No person and no character is beyond redemption, ultimately. That's the great thing about playing a character that has kind of a dark side; there's room to explore the opposite.

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

I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.

Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart – and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains…an unuprooted small corner of evil. Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.

We're all part of humanity. And maybe there's something about the worst people, with the most destructive, warped minds, that is just an acceleration of something that is in quite a few of us.

We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.

In real life, I don't think anybody is all one shade. People who are perceived to be really good have bad thoughts and inclinations that they sometimes act on, I'm sure, and people have different sides to themselves.

I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.

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

Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.