Quotes About Ambivalence

I was a bad kid. I was a bad and good kid in and out of the boxing gym.

I feel that my drive and ambition is more American, while the passionate, laid-back side of me is all Brazilian.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

After 'Broadcast News,' I could have played that same part, but I didn't want to. So I didn't follow it up with a hit.

I kind of have an allegiance to the city, but I don't love Brooklyn.

I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.

I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

I'm the opposite of the actor that is bursting with confidence who just knows they're going to make it. I'm the guy who's like yeah, probably, it won't happen.

I was scared of failing, and I was scared of succeeding. I just wanted to be in a safe space and not grow too big or be too little.

Success is a gift, but it's a handicap at the same time, I think.

Success is for creeps.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

I was a good student until I turned 15. Then, all of a sudden, it didn't matter to me anymore. Isn't that funny. I don't want to go to college. I always knew that. But it's hard. My friends are going, and I feel a little left behind.

I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want.

I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.

When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself.

Going to parties by myself? Yeah, I don't know if it's super cool or super uncool. I haven't decided yet.

I never really saw myself doing a Super Bowl promo.

How he loved and yet wished to leave you: always both, at once.

It fills me with such feelings that I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

We haven't been too bad, have we?' 'No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble--we haven't been very much of anything except us, while a big part of the world was busy being lots of quite awful things.

Why are some people all grasshopper fiddlings, scrapings, all antennae shivering, one big ganglion eternally knotting, slip-knotting, square-knotting themselves? They stoke a furnace all their lives, sweat their lips, shine their eyes and start it all in the crib. Caesar's lean and hungry friends. They eat the dark, who only stand and breathe.

On jest romantykiem, tak romantykiem. A to bardzo ?le... Bardzo ?le... Ale i bardzo dobrze.