Quotes About Contrast

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you.

In showbiz one minute you're up there making thousands of people laugh, next minute you're picking up toffees, you know it's real life.

I like songs that can be dark or threatening or dangerous, but its a better song if you can keep that and somehow stick a little bit of that things are going to be okay at the end, were going to work through this, and theres a brighter light on the other side of the road.

I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.

It was weird being a kid in the Midlands where outside everybody is white and speaks in a certain way but when you go home nobody speaks that way and everybody looks like you. Every day was this weird threshold crossing.

Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.

Privately, I'm thrilled with what I do, but publicly, I hold it in disdain.

To me, the best comedies get a little dark, and the best thrillers are a little bit funny. So I'm not exactly sure where I draw the line between the two.

American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about Rice Krispies and Coca-Cola. We had only silent food in our country, and we loved listening to our lunch and breakfast.

Belief systems thrive in circumstances of collision. They are energized by their opposites.

Throw a little glitter on a dead flower and it'll mask the decay.

There is nothing wrong with having a difference of opinion, or throwing a little shade every now and then.

I've thrown way more movie parties than real parties. My real life is so much more boring.

Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison.

I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.

I recall us selling out L.A.'s 5,000-capacity Gibson Amphitheatre and flying straight to Germany to play a 300-capacity room where we'd only sold 120 tickets. This was when 'City Of Evil' was really taking off in the U.S., but it seemed like Europe was less interested.

My character in 'Fresh Meat' is quite prim and tidy, and then I basically had no make-up for the whole shoot of 'Kidnap and Ransom' - apart from a bit of Vaseline to make me look even sweatier!

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

I've slept through a mild earthquake in Italy. And also a very tight hockey game where people were screaming their heads off.

An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.

similar, but they are actually worlds apart. An idiot is incapable

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut.