Quotes About Duality

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

I come across as a very serious and mature girl but there is also a mad and funny side to me which I hope the house is comfortable enough that it comes out naturally. The thing is this side of me is only known to people I am comfortable with.

I am not only neither Christian nor Jewish, but said to be in between, and I feel the same way about being from the South and being from the North. I write with my left hand but I throw a ball with my right hand.

I'm kind of the Robin Lopez Kryptonite, and there's a lot of Robin Lopez Kryptonite in the world.

I've always said that inside of me there is a rocker that wants to come out, but I'm a romantic rocker.

I love the really deep, rip-your-soul-to-shreds stuff, but I also love the romantic comedy.

There's some really good stuff in the way I was brought up. There's some really rubbish stuff as well.

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

The sad truth is, there's more Walter White in me than I'd care to admit, because if I truly was as kind as people think I am, I wouldn't be able to write Walter White.

We may live like saints, but when it comes to our fantasy life, everybody's got a little larceny in their soul.

I have a scary side of me.

I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.

I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

I'm a Gemini, so my mood always changes - one minute I'm dance-dancey, the next I'm in the corner minding my own business.

I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.

I believe that life offers you packages. It doesn't offer you good and bad, otherwise you will choose the good and you will leave the bad. It offers you packages and every package has some good and some bad.

The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.

Stylistically speaking, 'Paradise' is a Jekyll & Hyde song.

The whole notion of an alternative truth is a paradox. How can you have an alternative to truth?

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.