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“That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.”

People Play Joy Sides Dark Acting

Author:Julie Kavner

“I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.”

Sometimes Stuff Dark Dark Places

Author:Tracy Morgan

“Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.”

Thinking Way Children Persons Has Beens Reason Past Beautiful Sides Dark Interesting Abuse Relate Reason Why Furious Outcast Facets Maleficent

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Not many people know this about me, but I'm a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I'm basically a natural blonde.”

People Knows Looks Kind Children Light Mother Natural Dark Hair Blonde

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Comedy doesn't always have to come from a dark place.”

Dark Comedy Dark Places

Author:Craig Kilborn

“I love photo shoots where I can be like a pinup, not myself. Where I can be feminine, glamorous, dark not like in real life. I hate it when you go in and they want you to be 'natural,' to be yourself. I just hate it. I love having fun. When they ask you to smile, I hate it. Of course I smile in my real life, but to do it on cue, that's not spontaneous. I'd rather do something that's like a little movie, like a little story, rather than just me, I feel naked.”

Want Feels Littles I Can Real Stories Hate Courses Asks Fun Natural Dark I Hate Real Life Naked Having Fun Being Yourself Feminine Spontaneous Glamorous I Smile Photo Shoots Pinup

Author:Eva Green

“I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.”

Way Dark Tongue Newspapers Interviews Dry Sense Of Humor Candid Dry Sense Of Humor

Author:Michael Buble

“The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.”

Ifs World Looks Whole Light Dark Mystery Tree Grew Areas Whole World Forests Evening Christmas Tree Best Christmas

Author:Andy Rooney

“The thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human. They're full of flaws as much as they are full of heroics. I think the reason that people love them and hate them so much is because, in some way, they always see a mirror of themselves in them, and you can always understand them on some level. Sometimes it's a terrifyingly dark mirror that's held up.”

People Thinking Way Humans Sometimes Reason Character Hate Literature Speak Dark Levels Mirrors Flaws Fictional Character

Author:Keira Knightley

“The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.”

World Kids Dark Powerful Love You Perspective Vivid Poignant Dark Things

Author:James Mercer

“I often eat Skippys Super Chunk peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I dont shamefully sneak it in the dark of night when everyone is in bed. I just twist that cap off and go to town right out in the open.”

Night Dark Bed Towns Twists Caps Jars Spoons Peanuts Sneak Chunks Peanut Butter Sneak In

Author:Willie Geist

“No day so clear but hath dark clouds.”

Dark Clear Clouds Dark Clouds

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes

“I would be lying if I said I cut out all dessert. When Im training, I try to satisfy those cravings with a slightly healthier dessert, like a piece of dark chocolate or whipped cream and strawberries. Those are two of my favorites!”

Ifs Trying Said Two Would Be Lying Dark Pieces Cutting Training Chocolate Cream Craving Dessert Strawberries Dark Chocolate Whipped Cream

Author:Josie Loren

“People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you dye your hair blond and get a spray tan, people treat you as if you're a bit stupider and happier.”

People Ifs Sometimes Bits Dark Views Hair Skins Treats Pale Literal Spray Brooding Dark Hair Pale Skin

Author:Anna Paquin

“Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted the seeds of our own changes, and to grow we must accept even the passing of the sun Set Sail See with clear eyes See how we shine!”

Light Eye Turns Grows Dark Accepting Sun Clear Shining Seeds Passing Passings Triumph Wheels Decline Sail Sun Set Clear Eyes

Author:Starhawk

“I prefer thrillers but when its thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films.”

Important Film Dark Horror Suspense Gore Thrillers

Author:Cecile de France

“I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.”

People Thinking Two Play Hours Dark Half Jokes Manners Invites Retired Half Hours Bad Manners

Author:Bill Nighy

“Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. Theres whole swathes of stuff we cant account for.”

Should Matter Whole Universe Stuff Dark Interesting Accounts Cant Dark Matter

Author:Talulah Riley

“I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!”

Sometimes Order Actors Dark Scene Performances Dark Places

Author:Matthew Rhys

“Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.”

Sides Christ Dark Path Dark Side Cover Ups

Book:Bold love

Source: Bold love

“There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.”

Kind Film Fun Dark Sweet Brother Aspire Heartfelt Colorful Emulate Coen Brothers

Author:Sam Huntington

“It so depends on each script, because you can say... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.”

Kind Bigs Wanted Dark Depends Scripts Clever Rising Really Clever

Author:Amelia Warner

“I definitely fell in love with Dracula when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic.”

Found Dark Fascinating

Author:Sara Canning

“As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.”

Actors Enjoy Sides Dark Dark Side

Author:Dean Winters

“I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.”

Way Humans Difficult Dark Human Beings Comedy Aspect Passionate Believer Tackling

Author:Stephen Mangan

“english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.”

Language Dark Pockets Grammar Alleys Dark Alleys

Author:James Nicoll

“I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.”

Thinking Feels Bigs Film Dark Fans British Brilliant Cinema

Author:Ed Speleers

“I've worked with a lot of great glamorous girls in movies and the theater. And I'll admit, I've often thought it would be wonderful to be a femme fatale. But then I'd always come back to thinking that if they only had what I've had - a family, real love, an anchor - they would have been so much happier during all the hours when the marquees and the floodlights are dark.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Real Would Be Girl Hours Dark Wonderful Theater Real Love Glamorous Anchors Femme Femme Fatale Marquee

Author:Eve Arden

“The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro.”

Giving May Light Dark White Liberty Sky Conscience Skins Slavery Slave Deny White Skin

Author:Roman Baldorioty de Castro

“At times I feel it almost impossible not to despond entirely of there ever being a better, brighter day for us. None but those who experience it can know what it is - this constant, galling sense of cruel injustice and wrong. I cannot help feeling it very often, - it intrudes upon my happiest moments, and spreads a dark, deep gloom over everything.”

Knows Feels Moments Helping Feelings Dark Impossible Racism Constant Injustice Spread Oppression Brighter Gloom Brighter Days

Author:Charlotte Forten Grimke

“Hue does not refer to how light, dark, or intense, but only what kind of color: what hue. It takes all three aspects to make a color, therefore 'red' is not a color, but only one aspect, the hue, of some partially defined color.”

Kind Doe Light Three Dark Color Red Aspect Intense Defined Hue Light Dark

Author:William Tapley Bennett Jr.

“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”

Heart Dark Poor Grief Flower Sorrow Spring Graves Graveyard

Book:Infelicia [poems].

Source: Infelicia [poems].

“A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't need and adds those three inches I do.”

Needs Three Black Dark Clothes Green Add My Favorite Pounds Inches Fifteen Gowns Trimming

Author:Buwei Yang Chao

“Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly-to fully know and be fully known by another-we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in our most intimate relationships and in our selves.”

Knows Self Dark Known Security Comfort Longing Prepared Meaningful Spots Intimate Expansion Be Prepared Preoccupation Intimate Relationships Most Meaningful Meaningful Relationship

Author:Arianna Huffington

“Apologies; our cultural obsession with them isn't about actually being offended, or simply needing to hear, “I'm sorry.” It's not really about right or wrong. It's about wanting to throw a rock in the dark and hear something break.”

Dark Break Rocks Sorry Obsession Apology I'm Sorry Offended

Author:Jim Norton

“I'd like to play a mixture of Lucille Ball meets Murphy Brown meets Glenn Close on 'Damages,' to keep a little bit of the darkness in there. I like dark comedy a lot.”

Littles Play Bits Dark Darkness Comedy Little Bit Balls Damage Brown Mixtures Murphy Dark Comedy Murphy Brown

Author:Joelle Carter

“I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.”

Thinking Looks Kind Dark Perception Universal Like Me Mysterious

Author:Steven Bauer

“We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.”

Way Want Sides Dark Realistic Dark Side

Author:Tom Weston-Jones

“I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things.”

Done Dark Roles Opposites Dreary Polar Opposites

Author:Lauren Lee Smith

“Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.”

“No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.”

Play Moments Light Can Do Dark Acting Four Stage Beats Breaths Productions Hats That Moment Drummer

Author:Ken Stott

“Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.”

Years Firsts Feelings Parent Dark Four Journey Losing Angry Sorry Eight Four Years Feeling Bad Losing A Parent

Author:Lauren Miller

“Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.”

People Humor Water Hurt Religious Dark Ready Woods Demon Wilderness Black Clouds

Author:Martin Luther

“The definition of a Dark Age is that we no longer remember what we once could do.”

Age Remember Dark Investing Definitions Dark Ages

Author:Jerry Pournelle

“Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.”

Light Dark Awareness Buddhism Holy All Things Buddhist Cosmology

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.”

World Happens Dark Towns Impulse Waking

Author:Robin Wasserman

“Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there.”

Dark Dark Places Dark Things

Book:The Waking Dark

Source: The Waking Dark

“Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.”

Needs Humans Desire Dark Human Nature Chaos Symbolic

Author:Andrew Pyper

“Every day, without fail, I eat some dark chocolate.”

Dark Failing Chocolate Dark Chocolate

Author:Phoebe Tonkin

“In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools”

Fall Water Dark White Behinds Fool Quiet Silent Woods Forests Leafs Lap Ants Polished Deserted Harbour

Book:Cry, the Beloved Country

Source: Cry, the Beloved Country

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