Quotes About Complexity

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like.

If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

It's more fun playing someone who isn't just a bad guy.

I don't know what it is that I do, but when I play a really bad guy, I'm able to bring some level of likability to it.

I think that everybody likes the bad guy.

In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside.

In my career, I've been lucky to do the bad guys that are more interesting, where the audience wants to spend more time with them and get to know them. That's what I'm always looking for and trying to do.

It's amazing to me - what is this love affair we have with bad guys? With the bad boy in high school, with the anti-hero, et cetera, et cetera? Because I was always just a very nice boy. I didn't get it.

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.

I am attracted to bad people because they are very human.

You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

My job is to return abstraction to the people: in a sense, to popularize it without lowering the bar, which is a lot easier said than done.

I usually look for stories with barriers to entry, something complex enough that no one else is going to do it.

We've done very different Yes albums - 11 bars, 13. I think we had something that had 17/4 in it. It's just like anything - the more you do it, the more you have to do it.

Many of the people I know and that you know are very complex human beings, and it's not all about race. Everything isn't a question of race. Everything isn't a question of economics at the very base level.

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.

If you try and cover all your bases, like the ECB tend to do, you end up with muddled decisions.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

As human begins, we all have layers to ourselves, you know?

Any human being is this wonderful conglomeration of experiences and behaviors, if you like - some of them healthy, some of them not so healthy.

Being funny is very complex.

Maybe from the outside, Belgium looks complicated to understand, but from the inside, actually, every country is complicated.