Quotes About Ambiguity

A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.

Good and ill are one." "To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right." "The way up and the way down is one and the same." "God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger; but he takes various shapes, just as fire, when it is mingled with spices, is named according to the savour of each.

He shrugged and dusted dustless hands, one against the other. He

Embrace the tension.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.

I choose grey characters, as I enjoy playing a human character. I don't shy away from showing the shortcomings of my characters.

Exploring the dark side of my characters' personality is my forte.

There's a dark side to everything.

Personally, I prefer the dark side.

There is a dark side of me - it's the side people don't really get to see. I think everyone has that.

It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but it's probably the thing of finding the positive in there.

One thing I learned from my older brothers is there's two sides to everything.

You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.

I think the most interesting characters are those in which you can see both sides.

If you listen to Donald Trump speak on almost any given issue, you will hear him take both sides of that issue - in the same sentence, sometimes. It's very, very hard to pin him down in any specific way.

I had to always decide - am I playing Will in the scene, or is it the monster, or is it a little bit of both? I had to show two different sides of one person in a scene. They were definitely very opposites, because Will is this sweet little innocent sort of kid, and the monster is fierce; he's intense. You really have to show both sides.

I was interested in the human journey, the conundrum of when the right and wrong of both sides get murky. You have to make some very strong choices that you'll have to live with.

I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don't always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.

This business is fickle. You have very good patches and less good patches, but you learn to ride them out. As long as you don't take yourself too seriously, you'll be fine. When you lose sight of that, you're in trouble.

It's scary to sign a six-year contract for something that you don't necessarily know about. And yet I did that most every year. I've done a lot of failed pilots.

I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not that physical with you, if they don't want to make concrete plans with you, you know, if they're sort of ambiguous about where everything is going, I think that's a pretty good sign that they're not into you.