Tatiana Maslany Quotes

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

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

I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do.

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

By acknowledging, accepting, and embracing our dark side, we create natural steam vents within ourselves. By providing an opening, we eliminate the worry about an explosion because we are allowing the pressure to be released in a safe and appropriate way.

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

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

I don't see myself as having a dark side.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

You must be willing to examine and explore your dark side. You must acknowledge how bad you can be and how horribly unloving you can behave. When you know how deep and dark your dark side is, it helps you stand a little taller in the light.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

Women shouldn’t deny their dark side. Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they’re beautiful. You’ll have to approach them. Drink a glass of wine with them, take them for a walk on the beach, examine yourself.

Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.