Quotes About Duality

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

There's two Michaels: there's, like, my Michael. And the Michael that everyone else sees. Michael the entertainer.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

Kane and Glenn Jacobs are two separate entities, you know.

What goes for sex goes double for politics.

Yes, I have done many roles with negative shades, such as 'Awara Paagal Deewana' and 'Champion.' But in 'Ashoka,' I played a positive character.

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

They love you when you're doing well and hate you when you're the bad guy.

I think that everybody likes the bad guy.

I am attracted to bad people because they are very human.

Balance is the enemy of art.

If you take the yin-yang, it has a piece of the other inside itself. You can't be too much of one thing and be balanced.

Half the people tell me, 'I love 'Go All the Way,' but why do you have to write all those schlocky ballads.' And half say, 'I love 'All By Myself,' but why do you waste your time with this rock 'n' roll stuff?' I'd like to think that I could do both.

What was weird, as a 12-year-old actor, was being expected to behave like an adult while still being treated as a kid everywhere else.

Not all great presidents were always good, and neither individuals nor nations are without evil.

Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country," the novelist Sinclair Lewis

Broadly put, philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.

The double bind, the problem of consciousness mixed with nothingness, never goes away. You never stop waiting for the real story to start, because the only real story, in the end, is that you die.

It was this other side of Avery - the fact that he so visibly had an other side - that was helping me finally understand all three of the dimensions in Kafka: that a man could be a sweet, sympathetic, comically needy victim and a lascivious, self-aggrandizing, grudge-bearing bore, and also, crucially, a third thing: a flickering consciousness, a simultaneity of culpable urge and poignant self-reproach, a person in process.

The world was ersatz and actual, forged and faked, by ourselves and unseen others. Daring to attempt to absolutely sort fake from real was a folly that would call down tigers or hiccups to cure us of our recklessness. The effort was doomed, for it too much pointed past the intimate boundaries of our necessary fictions.

It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament.

I know that it is not necessary that there be one right thing. There may be two right things. There may be no right things.