Quotes About Contrast

There are people whose work I greatly admire who just don't write to my experience in any way.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

When I do sultry, bronzey eyeshadow, my eyes look greener, and when I wear dark or black colors, my eyes get a lot browner.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

To describe something as being black and white means it is clearly defined. Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear. In fact, it creates a grey area.

If you Google St Petersburg, it shows you some amazing buildings. When you go there, you realise that there are a lot of grey depressing ones that aren't on Google.

I obviously love 'The Grey'; that was a pleasure to make. It was also very difficult. Listen, I love 'Smokin' Aces.' That was a lot of fun to make. Completely different part of your brain, I guess. Some would argue the part that they don't want you to use.

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.

I like high fantasy as much as the next guy, but I also like a bit of grit and grime with my faux-medieval trappings.

During the past few years, I played men who led a gritty life. I wanted to do a lighter and less serious role.

Where I come from, the estates are not so nice. It is a bit gritty.

One of the main reasons I wanted to do 'Freefall' was that it's a complete contrast to what people see of me from being in the band. It's a gritty role and a gritty film.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.

To find beauty in the most grotesque things is a gift.

You think about D.C. as a boring stuffy place. That's kind of its image. But if you grow up in that, you see all these energetic, fun people and crazy stuff that happens behind the scenes that no one knows about.

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.

When you put the guitars over the 808, it just makes it grittier and grimier. It's just different.

I've always liked using humor, but what I had to with 'Chewing Gum' was take out a lot of darkness so it would be a bit more feel-good.

Whether on guns, race, culture or feminism, there really are two Americas.

If your idea of a guru is from a calendar, who has candy-floss beard and a constipated look on the face, then definitely I am not that.

I think you're the grumpy Kid in the Hall, I'm the nice Kid in the Hall.

Look at me! I can go from 'Donny and Marie' to Sam Peckinpah to Radio City Music Hall in one week.

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.