Quotes About Contrast

You can call me an Eisenhower Republican. There is a gigantic gulf between an Eisenhower Republican and the kind of fringe brand of Republicanism that is being so vocally promoted today.

My parents are Republicans, and I'm not.

As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray.

All my life I made a living out of hurting people. Now, I make a living out of making people laugh.

American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious.

The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.

We are not exposed to ice much in Florida.

I like ice cream, I don't like pain.

The thing with Crocs and the Chanel dress, one is quick, fast and regrettable, the other is enduring and iconic.

Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.

I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.

I like both antireligious and traditional Catholic imagery.

I went to a Chekhov play with my grandmother, and at the end, I was talking about how the first act was so boring. And my grandmother didn't see that at all. I realized it was because I need, like, the constant images changing. I wrote a paper about this.

I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.

You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.

I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.

I think everyone has the impression that L.A. is Hollywood and fast lives. That couldn't be further from the truth.

People have a different impression sometimes because of the way I'm on court, but outside, I'm nothing like that.

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

The medicine increases the disease.