Nicolas Cage Quotes

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 think everybody has a good and bad side.

I like characters who are contradictory.

Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It's not black and white.

Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful.

The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does not always equate to evil Light does not always bring good

I liked the monsters, I liked them because I couldn't understand how something so scary could also be so good. It got me thinking as a very early age, and I had a lot of rehearsal.

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

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.

There's a dark side to everything.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.

We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I think that there's a little bit of bad in all of us.

Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

I feel like humans, when you're faced with decisions, you can go up and down: duality.

You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?