Quotes About Contrast

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

In New York, I am barely recognised, or people don't really care. When I go to Portugal, I go outside to a public place and am recognised constantly.

Harry Patch didn't get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much.

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese.

Romantically, in my head, I'm Rambo, but if someone's shouting at me, I get adrenalin shakes and go red. When I'm really low, I have a good cry.

All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.

I do not like the red carpet; I prefer the green pitch.

I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet.

I go to auditions even now and people say, 'Oh, she's too pretty,' or 'She doesn't look like a small-town girl or a girl in high school who would get bullied.' But that's the whole point of being an actress - you can look glamorous when you're on the red carpet, and then bring it all down and be raw onscreen.

A brown lip liner will affect a red lipstick differently than a red lip liner.

A lot of my family are redheads, but I'm a dark blonde.

We refer to Lyft as a 'mullet app.' Simple up front, a lot going on in the back.

There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.

I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

Home was extremely normal. But my dad's life was quite exotic, really. When I went away to stay with him, it was a different world. I never wanted to be in that world. I was much happier with my mates at home.

I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

I feel like for me my happiest moments are tinged with the awareness that there's sadness on the flipside of the coin.

I'm always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.

It's harder to laugh than to cry.

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.