Quotes About Ambivalence

There's not much difference between love and hate.

To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

I always hated acting but I kept on acting.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

I am going to go on with my life, and if they call me and say 'Yo, you are going to be in the Hall of Fame or you are going to be in this,' then I am going to say, 'So be it.' If I make it, I will go to the ceremony, and I'll have fun.

Because I grew up around the reality and heartbreak of acting, I didn't want to have anything to do with it.

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

I've never had a particularly good experience in the Hollywood Hills. I love Hollywood, but there's something about the Hills where I'm just like, 'I'm going to just stay at ground level.'

If you look into your own mind, which are you, Don Quixote or Sancho Panza?" he had asked in the great essay on dirty postcards. "Almost certainly you are both. There is one part of you that wishes to be a hero or a saint, but another part of you is a little fat man who sees very clearly the advantages of staying alive with a whole skin. He is your unofficial self, the voice of the belly protesting against the soul.

Tanr? bana sinekleri kovay?m diye bir kuyruk vermi?; ama ke?ke sinekler de olmasayd?, kuyru?um da.

Sen bir aylak, bir uyurgezersin, bir istiridyesin. Tan?mlar saatlere, günlere göre deÄŸiÅŸiyor ama ta??d?klar? anlam az çok belli: YaÅŸaman?n, harekete geçmenin, bir ÅŸey yapman?n pek sana göre olmad???n? hissediyorsun; sadece sürüp gitmek istiyorsun, sadece bekleyiÅŸi ve unutuÅŸu istiyorsun.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

Until my father brought me into Reliance, I was pretty sure that I wanted to study in a U.S. university: hopefully, a little bit of time, either work at the World Bank or teach as a professor.

I never wanted to be an actor. Till my third film, I didn't imagine that I would continue acting. I didn't like it at all. It was only after three films that I became comfortable with acting.

I feel like my timeline has moved so many times in my brain. I used to be like, 'Maybe like 30' because that's when my older sister had her first kid. Now that I'm 30, I'm like, 'I don't want to have a baby in a long time!'

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

I'm tired of being in a band, but I do want to continue making records and performing, at least a little bit. Making the records isn't always fun. It's fun to be finished with them. Making beautiful things can be quite painful.

I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to be the lead, but I don't dance. I just do a lot of sitting down. It's too tiring to get up and dance around. That should be coming out in 20-never.

If I never fought for the belt, it wouldn't bother me. That whole song and dance gets tiring, and it's a lot of playing favorites. I've just had it dangled in front of me so many times, I'm just like, whatever, man.

I've sort of heard that 'it' girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know?

Hillary Clinton wants a new title, and I would, too, if I already was secretary of the status quo.

I'm fine with a title that's open to interpretation.