Quotes About Ambivalence

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.

People in the U.K. absolutely love my character in 'Downton,' and in equal measure, people absolutely hate him, and that's all I wanted.

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

I didn't know if Skynyrd fans were going to throw rocks at me or eggs or what.

I couldn't care less if I make a fourth-round U.S. Open or I lose first round. To me, everything is the same.

I'm not running for president.

Of course El Clasico is a great night, but I don't have an overwhelming desire to play in that game.

My real life memory of leaving Uni is an overwhelming excitement to be going home but also a weird numbness.

I'd be lying if I said Hollywood wasn't still an ambition; it's everyone's, isn't it? You're getting paid very well, you're working with great actors and great directors - who wouldn't want to be a part of that? But it's not going to break my heart if it doesn't happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you.

There's a panic, a rush, to this 'achievement' of fame. There's also the ambivalence of fame: the love of it and the hatred of it. We sometimes hate the famous while, at the same time, straining to achieve fame oneself.

Stylistically speaking, 'Paradise' is a Jekyll & Hyde song.

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

you may be doing everything for the wrong reasons and you may be pissing yourself when you do it, but at least you haven't given up.

I remember being asked at various stages last season "Would you take 17th place now?". Come the last game of the season, the answer was definitely yes. At the start of the season, then the answer was probably yes. But looking back at the season as a whole, then the answer is probably between yes and no.

Ambivalence, I think, is the chief characteristic of my nation. There isn't a Russian executioner who isn't scared of turning victim one day, nor is there the sorriest victim who would not acknowledge (if only to himself) a mental ability to become an executioner. JOSEPH BRODSKY

Ho sognato due o tre cose alla volta, non ho mai desiderato nulla

A lot of things have hurt me about the industry. I don't want to be very vocal about this but it's an everyday fight with Bollywood. It's like a love hate relationship.

II'm quite a successful musician, but I'm not sure if it's my vocation.

And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not,' but I knew that I wasn't.

's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.