Quotes About Duality

Nothing is more dangerous for me than to forget that I am a man both of reason and supernatural perception. When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential

Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a different way. If I relax my struggles they don't tear me in two, but lift me up.

You see the worst in the best of people," she said, shaking her head, "and the best in the worst of people.

I am part animal and part God.

I always thought it would be a simple matter to lie wi' a woman, he said softly. And yet... I want to fall on my face at your feet and worship you-he dropped the towel and reached out, taking me by the shoulders-and still I want to force ye to your knees before me, and hold ye there wi' me hands tangled in your hair, and your mouth at my service...and I want both things at the same time, Sassenach.

If ever you find yourself in the midst of paradox, you can be sure you stand on the edge of truth.

If ever you find yourself in the midst of paradox, you can be sure you stand on the edge of truth," his adoptive father had told him once. "You may not know what it is, mind," he'd added with a smile. "But it's there.

I felt simultaneously wonderful and wretched, and didn't know from moment to moment which feeling was uppermost.

If ever you find yourself in the midst of paradox

There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.

I think all parents have a double life.

I've always wanted to do a double role.

I'm Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Adrenaline makes me change.

I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.

It's tough being a racecar driver and being a Christian and going to church.

Water is good, but if you have too much, you drown. So is water bad, or is it good? It's both.

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them.

Earlier, I used to always ask people if they want me to answer as Supriya or Hansa. If they said Hansa, and asked me a question, I would say, I don't know. That's because Hansa doesn't know anything! For me, it was important to reach that state of thing in mind where I don't question anything.

I had to learn some hard lessons in my early days because I was a bit of a showman, a kind of Jekyl and Hyde character.

Not only did I cross-dress at 10, playing Rosalind in 'As You Like It,' I also found myself in a cross-dressed part at 60, when I played Lady Bracknell in 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'

I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

I always wanted to have sort of an alter ego.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

For some people, it's impossible to escape binaries.