Jeff Lindsay Quotes

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

I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.

When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.

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.

I like playing people with a dark side.

Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

I like the opportunity to play characters who have these dark sides but make the audience empathize with them. You want them to think there is some kind of sweeter, softer side to it.

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that.

People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

One of the things that I really enjoyed playing with Ender was how he's constantly struggling between his brother and his sister. It's like he's got two sides to him. And I've always wanted to play a darker character, and in this film and in the novel, Ender has his moments where he isn't a glorified hero.

Obviously I have more in common with Jekyll, but there's something about Hyde.

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.

Mike and I are always drawn to the idea that there is light and dark inside every being, rather than the old two-dimensional trope of good versus evil.

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.

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

Exploring the dark side of my characters' personality is my forte.

I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.

In order to have your best good guy, you have to be that bad guy.

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.

The Rated-R Superstar was usually a vile and horrible human being who had some moments of being a good guy.

I am my favourite villain!