Quotes About Contrast

I've never lived anywhere else in my life, I have a massive love-hate relationship with this city. I grew up in the western suburbs in the '80s and for everything we had to go to south Bombay - so you lived the whole city, in a sense.

In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.

In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

I think that being precious and rock and roll should never go together.

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

Muhammad Ali inside the ring and Muhammad Ali outside the ring were totally different men; his abrasive, magnetic daring and infectious self-love outside the ring galvanized the world and distracted many from his sniper's precision. He was a heavyweight with the fluttering gracefulness of a middleweight.

I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose.

I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things.

People think you get paid millions by the BBC if you're famous, but me? Me, I'm in the Premier Inn in Gillingham.

That's the difference between outside and playing in the Premier League.

Obviously the leagues are different. The Premier League is much more competitive than the Dutch league.

I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm Not There.' I literally finished filming Elizabethan grandeur on Friday, flew to Montreal, and started being Bob Dylan on Monday.

New York is essentially a bazaar, not a Presbyterian church.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

President Trump, in a lot of ways - not just on policy but in terms of style - is everything that Hawaii is not.

I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.

People say to me, 'Ooh, L.A. is so plastic.' Sure, it's mountains to the right, oceans to the left and pretense in the middle, but who... has to hang out in the middle?