Quotes About Contrast

I think punk rock needs an 'Amadeus.'

It's always been tough to imagine the T.U.F.F. Puppy animal gang living next to Danny Phantom.

I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.

Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30.

To me, St. Lucia isn't just purely feel-good; there are these other juxtaposed elements as well.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

When my sister moved to Mumbai to pursue a career in Bollywood, I was interested in Hollywood. Quite a contrast, right?

I think that I must be the only person who left California and headed to Dublin in pursuit of a career in film. The arrow is pointing in the other direction in most people's minds.

I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.

In a game I'm, like, 'Rubber Man' or something but, off the pitch, I'm the least flexible person you could imagine.

For all the amazing things we've got to do, there's always the flip side of life kind of passed us by in other ways.

I'll flip samples where one's a completely dark song and the next one is a complete sexual song. People think my whole thing is a dark thing, but I don't.

You know, comedy and horror are flip sides of the same coin.

I like flipping Coldplay. And I like Jessie Ware. But I'm sure how we grew up was totally different.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

Florida, bro. It's different.

You know, every city in Florida is different.

I love a bathroom and fluffy bathrobe. Bear Grylls and camping... that's not me!

To go straight to 'Scandal' and get to play the larger-than-life guy who has the page-long rants and gets drilled in the leg with blood flying everywhere, it was a blast. It's really been a nice counterpoint after the first season of 'The Carrie Diaries.'

I don't do really well in cities, which is crazy given that we're flying in and out of these major cities every week.

The folk that you get on Radio 1 isn't the sort of thing that I'm into: it's kind of too uptempo and jaunty for me. I prefer a bit of atmosphere and a bit of darkness.

Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story.