I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious… as we all do.
I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All of life passed through the Limerick courthouse. Misery, malevolence, the dark side of humanity… I tell ya, it made ‘Angela’s Ashes’ look like ‘The Wonderful World of Disney.’
‘Dark Side of the Moon’ was one of my father’s favorite records, which I obviously didn’t understand when I was young. To be honest, I don’t really have too many memories of hearing it, but I definitely have memories of the cover.
I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
I don’t have a dark side at all. I just like violence.
When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.
Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don’t have any dysfunction, and I’ve never experienced trauma.
‘In Utero’ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‘Pennyroyal Tea.’
I guess, deep down, there’s a dark side to us. I guess that’s why movie fans really love the revenge drama. We like to go into dark movie theaters and fantasize.
In 2011, I contributed an essay to Tin House, ‘The Dark Side of Dinner Dishes, Laundry, and Child Care,’ talking about women writers I felt had fallen off the map.
The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it’s very difficult not to get swept up in it all.
I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity.
I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety… and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.
I have never played a role in which someone’s dark side shouldn’t be explored.
When you’re thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
I was on tour with Little Dragon with the Gorillaz. She’s got an amazing voice and is a lovely girl. Her vibe is fresh pressed and harmless fun with a tinge of the dark side if you look in the right bits of the tunes.
On ‘Nip/Tuck,’ I was a Nazi, so basically for, like, six months. I went into this place where I was wearing a lot of black. Everyone has a dark side, and I can channel that.
Every town has its dark side, but I spend time in New York for my dark inspiration.
As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.
The great thing about Showtime is that they really give us leeway and the range to explore the real dark side of stuff.
I’m really into horror art, so I feel, like, a dark side in that way.
I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.
Every country has a dark side of their history.
I think it’s almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.
Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call ‘the dark side,’ and greed is one of them. If you don’t put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.
Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there’s a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what’s wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they’re inseparable.
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what’s behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.
I regret those times when I’ve chosen the dark side. I’ve wasted enough time not being happy.
I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, ‘Look, I’m interested in Ottoman things, and I’m not afraid of it, and I’m doing something creative.’
I am attracted to the dark side of life!
I would pretty much like to forget the music that happened to me between the ages of eight and 11, so I’m going to say the first album I bought was the special edition of ‘Dark Side of the Moon.’
I have a love, hate relationship with social media. I love it, because it’s built a platform for many people and many business… However, there is a dark side, which is negative and hateful.
If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.
There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It’s a difficult place if you don’t know people, and if you can’t drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble.
It’s more interesting isn’t it, if I’ve got a hedonistic dark side?
I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.
That’s always been part of my goal – to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the time, and they’re called antiheroes.
I’ve always had a fascination with vampires. It’s not that I’m exactly fascinated with the dark side. It’s the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.
For the majority of guys, their character is just an extension of what they are really like. I’m generally a pretty nice guy but I’m a bad guy in WWE. So I always say it’s like an extension of my dark side.
I was pretty certain I’d stay in TV rather than returning to the feature world because the material just seems so much better in TV, especially in drama, but then ‘Crossface’ came my way. A heartbreaking, true story about the dark side of wrestling… I couldn’t say no to that.
You’d have to spend a lot of time with me before I’d be comfortable enough to show my dark side.
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature – that’s where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we’re busy denying.
When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, ‘Oh, man!’ I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.
The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing ‘The Jedi Doth Return.’ After having done so many things with characters who don’t speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader’s transformation from the dark side back to the good.
I don’t have a dark side as far as there is, like, murder in my past, but yeah, I think I’m a pretty nice, easygoing guy.
I personally have been drawn to female roles who are incredibly strong; females who are dominant and know their own mind; who are feisty in their own way without being annoying. I like it when she has a dark side, but she also has a playful side.
The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.
There is a dark side of me – it’s the side people don’t really get to see. I think everyone has that.
I guess I have an affinity towards darkness, the dark side.
Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
What I want to do now is to play a dark character. I want a role that taps into my dark side and it will be a refreshing change for me after all the comic roles.
The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.
The Weezer ‘Blue’ Album is a classic. I think My Morning Jacket’s ‘Circuital’ is a great album to have. Any Led Zeppelin album. Pink Floyd ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ or ‘Animals.’ I always catch myself at concerts being like, ‘Oh, I just stared at the drummer for 15 straight minutes.’ I study them.
Growing up, everyone around me in El Paso, Texas, was all about watching ‘The Wall’ and, you know, ‘Money’ and ‘Dark Side of the Moon,’ which are fantastic records, of course.
In ‘Sanju,’ there are too many colours. Some other filmmaker could have taken a dark side to that story.
The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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