Quotes About Contrast

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

My characters in each of my films bear no resemblance to each other.

The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.

If there's somewhere that in no way resembles Eastern Europe, it's Australia.

I love being kind of reserved and serious and then having these explosions of passion when it comes time to perform.

In older Hollywood movies, a character will make an entrance, close a door, light a cigarette, sit down, have a drink. In Jean-Luc's movies, you were doing everything at once, and sometimes you wouldn't shut the door all the way.

Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.

I think my mother was baffled by me. We were polar opposites. She was shy and retiring. I was over-fond of the limelight. Many times in my life, I was conscious of embarrassing her with my carrying on.

People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.

I was very, very shy in public and school, and quite loud and brash at home.

Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.

I don't really understand it: in real life, I'm often so shy - paralysingly so - but when I'm performing, it's totally different. I feel free.

My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.

Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.

I was very shy and withdrawn as a child, but people know me as these assertive women. They are not me.

I have a big persona onstage sometimes, but offstage, I'm super shy. Like, I don't want to perform for people - I'd rather die than sing in a room for someone.

I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.

If one sibling does something, the other will fill the opposite role. I found, at least for my brother and I in real life, that seems to be a thing.

The funny thing is that everyone thinks I'm naturally dark because all of my siblings are, but I'm naturally dirty blond.

Siblings are often very opposite.

I was sick of being articulate and loud and charming. I didn't want to play that guy anymore. I wanted to play the absolute opposite of that.

There's a dark side to everything.

A mirror reflects what you see, and a black mirror shows the dark side of it.

When you look on the bright side, you're acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to gaze. If you think that the darkest hour is before the dawn, you accept that you are moving from darkness to light.