Quotes About Contrast

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Slow motion goes one of two ways. It either makes it look really, really cool, or it makes it look really, really bad.

I was reading some books by Michel Houellebecq, and the first thing that comes to mind is that they're really funny, all the ways they describe the most depressing things.

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

I like to do on screen what I'm not in life. In life, I'm much more weak and insecure, and so then you know I like to play characters that are stronger than me.

People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?

Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.

Pittsburgh, where you once couldn't wear a shirt for more than an hour, is a lot cleaner than Hollywood.

At times, I pity my comedian image. People start laughing seeing me even in funeral processions.

Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.

One thing about Los Angeles is it feels like it's not new. It feels like it's already been built, and it's deteriorating, except for the places they're trying to make nicer. But in general, you drive all through the city, and the city feels like it was new a long time ago.

I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

I think jokes can actually go to places that drama can't.

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.

All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.

Sometimes people say, 'Oh I'm surprised you'd be in Staples buying a plastic box, I thought you'd have a servant to do that for you.' I'm like, 'What are you talking about? I still go to Tesco, I still do my big shop.'

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

New York can get on top of you if you don't have much money, but if you have money, it's kind of a playground.

I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.

The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.