Quotes About Ambivalence

I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.

I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

I said no to a lot of superhero stuff. I never expected to say yes to that kind of stuff.

New York is where you go to catch a big fish.

Like every New Yorker, I have a love/hate relationship with the city. There are times it's overbearing, but when I'm away even for a little while, I can't wait to get home. I am a New Yorker.

And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion.

I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a 'Trek' person. I feel about 'Trek' the way one feels about known, vaguely liked, but rather distant members of one's family.

Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion.

everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.

The universe does not care what we want.

When you look for independence and you get what you want, how come you look back thinking what have I done?

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.

When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married.

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

ambivalence, it turns out, is an unavoidable companion in the search for a new dharma):

The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred.

I know what my decision is...Which is not to decide.

Those who lead double lives do so because they can only count that far

Clinton's desire to kill them was very clear to us early on," recalled one of his senior aides. But he did not commit himself all the way. The first MON he signed in the summer of 1998 authorized covert action aimed at taking bin Laden and his aides into custody for trial. The ambiguous language might have been crafted to assure Janet Reno's support, but Clinton etched his own signature on the memo