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- Nov 07, 2020
Dark Quotes
On hard seasons, dark humor and difficult truths.
This dark quotes collection ranges from describing genuinely hard personal seasons to arguing that comedy often grows out of the darkest material. Related: our Dark Time quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never done an actual Western, and I would love to do that. I've done drama and dark comedy stuff. I've never really done a romantic comedy either. I would do that.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark.
- Edge
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.
- Entire Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think we're always dark and gloomy, and we're not.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.
- Optimism
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- Nov 07, 2020
My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I think it is subversive to embrace emotional optimism, because it goes against the grain.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.
- Dark Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020