Quotes About Duality

Since many years, I realized that I have a darker side in me, even though I still believe I'm a very positive person. But still, there is still darkness that makes me write music and create in general, and it affects everything that I do. I believe it's a beautiful darkness.

As a film actor, I connected to the people on the good and positive things. But, as a politician I feel the pain and miseries.

Where there's love, there's hate; where there's positivity, there's ignorance.

There is nothing called negative character. The negativity and positivity exists in all of us.

My job is to take out the negativity from a positive guy and take out the positivity from a negative guy. I don't play positive or negative roles. This is what I find fascinating about acting.

I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory.

When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'

Everything contains its antithesis.

Life can't die. It's a contradiction.

I am a living contradiction.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

I'm a walking contradiction.

I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.

We all live with contradictions.

I'm full of contradictions.

In general, I like contradictions and complex situations.

Contradictions are fun.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

I grew up in the States, but I go back to Brazil quite often, and a big part of me is very Brazilian, so there's a constant struggle between the two cultures within me. They're very different approaches to life.

To do a 'Bond' picture is a blessing but also a curse.