Mel Giedroyc Quotes

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

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

The truth is that humans have the potential to be horrific. And I think being conscious of that is important.

People are not born evil, although we all have evil within us.

The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them.

Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.

There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.

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

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

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.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

We can't solve any problem without first solving the problem of human nature

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.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean, we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave.

I think that people are fascinated with the stories, with human nature and the dark turns it can take.

For me, I start at the place that my characters are human. I start at the place that they are onions that are layered and meant to be peeled, just as we as human beings are.

He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inconsistent, and that's something I think makes him a writer above most writers because inconsistency is what we, as people, are full of. We maybe don't see it in ourselves too often, but we are inconsistent.

I think the dark psychology of human beings is very interesting as an artist.