Quotes About Complexity

Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.

I don't find anything black and white; I find grey in every person, and that is what excites me.

I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

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.

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.

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

The reason I like 'Breaking Bad,' which is still probably my favorite show, is Walter White. You watch him transform, and that's so fascinating. And I think. a lot of TV shows that aren't successful, it's because the characters become stagnant.

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

I have seven brothers and sisters, and I'm the only one who looks white because my mother has had children by all black men, and then my father has children with other women as well.

I'm half-white and half-black. No-one will ever say I'm white, but all the road men think because I'm mixed race that I can't be bad because I'm light skin. It's crazy.

You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

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.

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

I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is.

The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

When we talk about famine, people start listing, as I have, its many different elements. We must not let the complexity of the subject put us off. We must continue putting our efforts into prevention.

For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.