Quotes About Ambiguity

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It's not black and white.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray.

Performance in any sport can never be broken down into black and white. There's a lot of grey in the nature of sport.

My characters make incomprehensible decisions until you stand in their shoes. Then it makes more sense. Life is very rarely black and white, and most people are trying to do their best. I try not to judge.

It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.

When I first appeared, people couldn't figure out whether I was gay, straight, black, white or whatever, and I loved that. I loved the fact it scares people.

I like characters that are complex. I don't like people who are simple to play and are either black or white.

I kind of muddled through 'Pride & Prejudice,' but with 'Atonement,' I knew what I was doing. That makes it sound like I had no doubt. I had doubts - I didn't know whether it would work. But I knew exactly what I wanted to try to do.

A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.

I didn't know if pro ball was in the plans for me. I didn't know it was going to happen right away.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.

I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.

Simple black-and-white thinking or action is always going to be problematic.

Architects like to work in a problematic environment.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

When you look at the social cost of carbon - and there is a lot of ambiguity around that - what you also need to be doing is looking at the benefits of carbon and what that has on increased agriculture production.

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

I always look so different in different roles, people are never quite sure. Which is the way I like it.