Quotes About Duality

A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.

I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff.

We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

One of the things that seems absolutely clear to me about werewolves - with their canine makeup - is that they would be dogs, as it were.

I love to get to the underbelly of why people are up in arms about anything. Really, what I see is a big shadow in the West, in America especially, and everyone's afraid of looking stupid. But the truth is, I'm a genius and I'm stupid at the same time.

For many years I saw the world as two sides: east and west, two powers. And I was trying to search what is white, what is black. Both sides wanted me.

Western man is schizophrenic.

For 'Boxers and Saints', the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect.

Pragmatism and romance are sort of opposites.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.

If someone asked, 'Would you prefer to be thought of as St. Michael as opposed to the devil,' I might say St. Michael. But that choice is not really there, because you are in an environment in which you have natural predators and enemies.

First and foremost, I think it's just such an incredible gift as an actor when you're presented with a notion of essentially playing two characters in one - which is kind of how I approached Timmy in this version of The Craft.'

For a long time, I felt that was actually the best I could ever hope for - to pretend to be a good person - because I was quite the opposite.

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that.

I've always been attracted to more intense and darker roles, but I think there is complexity and darkness in comedies as well.

There is no meaning to light if there is no darkness.

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

'Raman Raghav' will break my image of cute boy-next-door. My character in the film is mad, demented, very aggressive. He is a good cop but has his own issues.

I feel so detached from what I am on the outside. The person I am on the inside is very separate.

I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.