Quotes About Duality

Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.

Smiling is the chosen vehicle of ambiguities.

You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways--but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

Most people inhabit a universe that is like French café au lait—fifty per cent skim milk and fifty per cent stale chicory, half psychophysical reality and half conventional verbiage.

even though he is mad and I am sane.

I did not like Ravenscliff by instinct, but I was beginning to find him fascinating. A book-reading, socialist-sympathising, child-begetting capitalist fraud.

And there was something I've since noticed over the years—the mountain range that separates the naked from the clothed man. Two men on one passport.

The phrase was "in two places at once," and the memory was of early morning.

It was either hilarious or it was tragic, that people should go about their daily business in the conventional way when they knew there was this.

Jekyll is quite me: young man; polite. But being able to play Hyde was quite fun, to create a character that's nothing like me. I quite enjoyed creating a new character like that: he had a different voice; physicality; mannerisms. Everything had to be thought about. It was a real challenge.

What I like most about the series is that the stories deal 75 percent of the time with the problems of Peter Parker, a normal, unremarkable young man when he isn't out fighting crime.

If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

There's a conflict between what's in your mind and what's in your body.

I told somebody once, 'You don't want the Herschel that plays football... babysitting your child. When I am competing, I am a totally different person.'

There's always a ying-yang in life. With everybody. There's evil in all of us. It's just about how you balance out the evil and the good and having faith in yourself and how you carry yourself.

It was a tricky part to play, because Herriot is both a fictional character and a real person.

I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.

You can make somebody bad for a long time, and people love it when they then do one good thing and it's almost like a triumph. Actors seem to enjoy it more.

I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life.

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

I can be glib and truthful all at once.