Quotes About Contrast

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

Saints need sinners.

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldn't stand the theater geeks!

I wanted to do a comedy. I'd been actively looking for a comedy. I wanted to do one that was different. Nothing against them, but I wasn't interested in just your normal sitcom, boy meets girl.

I'm not being arrogant or blase, but I got a bigger buzz sitting opposite Jean-Bernard Delmas over lunch at Chateau Haut-Brion than I did from interviewing Elton John, Liza Minelli or Whitney Houston.

The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

People are capable of incredible gallantry and terrible cruelty in situations of extreme duress. I tried to showcase that range in 'Enclave.'

Even austere, puritanical Cambridge of the Sixties was infinitely nicer and infinitely more attractive than the world I'd known before.

My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed with the fact that I try to find an element of sensitivity in every character I play. People enjoy seeing that because it goes against what we're led to expect as far as the way men are supposed to be - macho and all that.

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

My father has fair skin, and my mother is dark, and I'm kind of cafe au lait.

I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.

Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.

Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.