Quotes About Contrast

We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.

I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.

I feel I need a lot of contrast, so I have all these things happening, but they're all necessary to make me feel satisfied. It's got to be this big pot happening, with everything boiling at once.

In North Korea I thought a frozen potato was the fanciest food in the world.

None of my friends go to places like Selfridges. I'm a regular at the pound shop!

I'm secretly like 800 pounds and 90 years old.

Let's say you have white milk and chocolate milk, and one of them is good emotions and one of them is bad emotions, and you pour both in: you're still going to fill up and run over.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things.

Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.

What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United States. And then, of course, we had the Great Depression.

I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny.

'More & More' is animated, full of confidence, even cute; in contrast, the dancing is incredibly powerful and energetic.

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

Everything contains its antithesis.

I am a living contradiction.

I'm a walking contradiction.

In general, I like contradictions and complex situations.

Contradictions are fun.

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.

If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is.