Quotes About Contrast

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

I was going to go to a Gathering of the Juggalos but decided that wouldn't work. They would know I was there to make fun of them. It would be like me going to a Trump rally.

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all traditional Catholics. But my mother was the black sheep of the family - she ran away to the ballet at 17.

My character on 'The Crazy Ones' is entirely different than Bob Benson. If these guys ran into each other at a bar, I don't think they'd have much to talk about. They're really different guys.

I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.

We live in a world that has very sharp edges. It can be very bitter and if you come across a little bit of random kindness - someone who is nice to someone - then that is always lovely.

It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.

The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.

It's funny; people in Europe seem more interested in decay in America than Americans.

You don't get further outside than I do going into Washington, D.C.

I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.

For a country that makes such a fuss about love on the 14th of February, America has a funny way of showing it on the other 364 days of the year.

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

I think that's why 'Game of Thrones' is such a watercooler talking point: because there are these moments that are beautiful and terrible at the same time.

After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.

I would like to be a gang leader on 'Sons of Anarchy' or own a lemonade stand on 'Boardwalk Empire.'

Being gay in San Francisco is fun. Being gay in Saudi Arabia - that's a whole other matter.

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

The genre I listen to the most is salsa, so people look at me and see this guy who's done mostly romantic ballads, but there's always been this other side.

He was everything I didn't expect. I had just seen him in Get Carter' and he seemed so aggressive and ruthless. Instead, I found him charming and very gentle, someone whom I'd like to spend part of my life with. Michael was at that time still very much against marriage.

I've thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain't even close.