Annette Bening Quotes

I've learned that nobody is either all good or all evil. We all make mistakes, but we all are also capable of accomplishing extraordinary things.

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.

All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would lead you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

I'm sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

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

The best men are not consistent in good--why should the worst men be consistent in evil?

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

The truth is, we are all human, and we all make mistakes.

We are all human, and we do bad things sometimes.

To be human is to err, isn't it?

At the end of the day, human beings make mistakes.

I personally feel that no human is a hero or a villain. All of us have our grey sides, and that is why grey interests me: because it's more human, more life-like.

You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody's behaving 'inhuman,' it's not. It's very human - it's just not a very nice side of it.

I think it’s just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time. And we still wouldn’t know what to do differently. Everyone just muddles through, trying not to make too many mistakes.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually not. In other words, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "Yuck, yuck, yuck, I'm gonna be evil."

The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.

People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.