Quotes About Contrast

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.

My very worst day on 'Green Lantern' was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on 'Buried.'

We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.

I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.

The worst thing is where the world people experience before they go into the theatre is far more interesting than what they encounter on stage.

For me, there is a real line between something being the worst thing in the world and the best thing in the world.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

I've stood around bogs wearing half a million dollars' worth of jewelry, up to my knees in the rot, thinking how much more or less the place smelled like a sewer than it did the day before.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

I like Tom Wolfe's description of the country: There's America. The coasts are like the parentheses. In between is the country.

I mean, sometimes it's really good to listen to something like Tom Petty, that's purely blissed out. But that's not me.

I like to look like a tomboy during the day and then a pin-up girl at night.

I've said this before: myself and Tommy Shelby, he's the most unlike-me character I have ever played.

If you have an extreme character, you need normal characters to contrast them. Sherlock Holmes certainly needed a Dr. Watson. And Pippi Longstocking, who supposedly inspired Lisbeth Salander, needed Tommy and Annika, the normal middle-class neighbors.

There's a ton of stories that can come out of L.A. I actually think that even though I enjoy being in New York more, I think that L.A. is a really fascinating place.

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.

If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.

The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show.

When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone.

In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth.

Life mixes tones all the time.

The last thing I do is go and listen to heavy rock music. But I love electronic music. The purity of the tones is inspiring, because it's obviously much more controlled than a guitar tone.