Quotes About Nuance

In my career, I've been lucky to do the bad guys that are more interesting, where the audience wants to spend more time with them and get to know them. That's what I'm always looking for and trying to do.

I always feel that the mark of a good ballet is that when you see it more than once, you get more out of it.

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.

Being funny is very complex.

There are no true answers, just shades of grey, coincidence, and circumstance.

Where Goldwaterites saw the world in black and white, Rockefeller noted shades of gray.

he's a grey area, in a world that doesn't like grey areas, but the grey areas are where you find the complexity, it's where you find the humanity, and it's where you find the truth.

In an age of fear, moderation is hard to find and harder to sustain. Who wants to listen to a nuanced argument, when what we want is someone to relieve us from the burden of thought and convince us that we were right all along? So people mock. They blame. They caricature. They demonise. In an age of anxiety, few can hear the still small voice that the Bible tells us is the voice of God.

Sometimes feelings are like that - not positive, not negative, just a lot.

Without context, we'd all be monsters.

Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.

This can shake you up, this business of things almost but not quite being the same. A pharmacy is not quite a drugstore; a brasserie is not quite a coffee shop; a lunch is not quite a lunch.

Religion has played a big part in eliminating the nuance in humanity. People began to believe things before they knew them. It stopped people from listening and learning with the patience and love of the God they believe in.

Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.

I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

For any character, male or female, I think it's important to have... it's cliche to say a flawed character, but to really think about the good and the bad and make sure that both are present, and it doesn't just become a glossed over icon of perfection.

Non c'è nessun libro così cattivo che non abbia in sé qualcosa di buono.

One of the finer arts in tactic is to pay attention to subtlety.

The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or women with a lot of faults or women that we dislike intensely who are malicious.

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else's shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

I'm not such a big fan of having a linear answer to things.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people still don't understand it. It's not just black and white, you know?