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Quotes About Jekyll

As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.
~ Sigourney Weaver
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
~ Mark Twain
'Jekyll and Hyde' I read in high school. I was expecting a Hollywood-type horror story and couldn't believe it when I got this very complex narrative from all these different points of view.
~ Ian Rankin
Jekyll is quite close to me, a little bit more shy. Whereas Hyde is a mish-mash of lots of things. I didn't realise I was borrowing it throughout the auditions - but Heath Ledger's Joker was an influence.
~ Tom Bateman
Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens — his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey — had resemblances that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light — an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.
~ Eleanor Perenyi
Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and constantly falls foul of his seniors. For all this, we root for him. He is eminently loveable, a quixotic hero moving through the darker half of a Jekyll and Hyde Edinburgh.
~ Mark Billingham
In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his transformation in a process that's explained not through the supernatural but the natural or, at least, through biochemistry.
~ Joshua Cohen
I enjoy the kind of characters that allow you to write the dark stuff. I love Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, and when I'm writing for Dracula or Jekyll & Hyde, I get a chance to use that vocabulary.
~ Frank Wildhorn
Always ask at the pub, Miss Jekyll. Elementary investigation - the pub always knows.
~ Theodora Goss
One of the reasons I got into musical theater was Anthony Warlow. I was obsessed with the 'Jekyll and Hyde' concept album because of him.
~ Rob McClure
I had to learn some hard lessons in my early days because I was a bit of a showman, a kind of Jekyl and Hyde character.
~ Bruce Grobbelaar
I never even went to Jekyll & Hyde's restaurant. I loved the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, though.
~ Alexandra Daddario