Quotes About Contrast

I had fun doing both types of roles. Both are good. One day you laugh, and the next day you cry. That's how it is.

I consider myself almost a Californian at this point, because I've been here long enough. Obviously, when I first came to the land of blond-haired, blue-eyed surfer types, I was the sardonic, sarcastic, liquor-swilling, chain-smoking, dark-haired, dark-eyed guy from New York.

On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.

My wife's half-Indian, her father's from Uganda and she was born in Canada. Her sister speaks French and their family speaks a little Gujarati, and I'm talking about Gujarati from 1940! And just think - Rajpal Yadav in the middle of all this. What a contrast!

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

This world is ugly, and it's supposed to be, and it has to be in order for art to lead to grandness and beauty.

The great thing about freshwater fish is most of them are incredibly ugly, a lot of them are, so no one can fail to look good next to some of these things.

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

Sonnen always appeared as the nice guy, consoling his fighters, while my scenes were all of me with ugly face. It was biased.

My interpretation of the word 'ugly'... I like ugly beauty. That can happen. In France, we have phrase 'jolie laide.' We like certain women who are not pretty or cute - it's the opposite in France of pretty. It's more strange and interesting.

The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.

Humanity has both its beautiful and its ugly sides.

We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.

I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.

I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very 'Glee.'

It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.

I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.

A lot of my work is intelligent, a lot of the work is beautiful, but I make ugly things, too.

When I look back to my infancy many images come to mind, beautiful and ugly.