‘The Larry Sanders Show,’ it’s actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn’t exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don’t think the show was.
When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that a developing human goes through, people will come out of the woodwork to listen to someone else say it out loud.
If Flavor Flav was any smaller and darker, Brad and Angelina would try to adopt him.
People are fascinated by the darker sides of human nature, and I think they’re also interested in seeing the ability that a particular detective or group of detectives might have to solve the crime and put the world right again.
In my darker moments, I feel like the Queen of England, bound and gagged by reverence. Tin-crowned and irrelevant.
One of the things that I really enjoyed playing with Ender was how he’s constantly struggling between his brother and his sister. It’s like he’s got two sides to him. And I’ve always wanted to play a darker character, and in this film and in the novel, Ender has his moments where he isn’t a glorified hero.
Maybe because I’m a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.
I tried to buy the script of ‘Hancock.’ I loved it. The script was far darker and edgier than the movie.
Learning how to walk again was a process for me. It was some of the darker days of my life, but I’ve had many moments of my life where I’ve had to just kind of put my head down and work, and this was no different.
I love the opportunity to use my full range, and so playing in the comedy ‘Black-ish’ gives me the opportunity to show my lighter side, and playing in this beautiful, elegant horror story of ‘Hannibal,’ I get to use my darker and more cerebral side. It’s really wonderful.
I use self-tanners at least once a week, and I get darker than I do then when I am in the sun.
The darker the character, the more interesting.
I think it’s important for anyone who takes cinema seriously not to limit yourself to just optimistic or happy movies. I think that’s a problem. You’ve got to be willing to let the art of cinema take you into some darker places if you’re going to make full use of it.
I’d love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I’d like to explore onscreen.
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man’s faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
As a writer, I try to do different things, but I’m not going to become a darker artist or turn into Radiohead overnight. I don’t think that’s my style.
If you look at it closely, ‘Mankatha’ is a politically incorrect film. It explores the darker side of the human mind, and I think, while watching it, people are, in a sense, redeeming themselves of their own guilt.
I don’t like to see people using their power over others, trying to hurt people who are weak or poor or people with darker skin or anyone who doesn’t have as much privilege. It makes me so angry. I want to fight for people. I want to be able to make some kind of difference in the world.
I am looked at as an African American guy because of the color of my skin. I am darker.
The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.
Craig has explored the darker recesses of 007’s psyche. He has shown us the lonely man. And he has shown him falling truly in love.
The thing is, I never see my characters as psychopaths. I see them as really crippled victims who just happen to do bad things. And I never see them as bad guys; I see them as darker characters. I never see anything as good or bad; it’s more light or dark, and the in-between is the grey.
Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
I want to do a darker, pop soul kind of feel.
We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things – maybe not as much in modern times, but there’s a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.
Like ‘Ram Jaane,’ ‘Mon Churi’ also looks at the darker side of life and encapsulates the story of human beings who live on the fringes of society. But the plots are different.
My favorite film is ‘The Empire Strikes Back.’ My writing, and my personal taste in movies and books, tends toward works with a darker tone, and ‘Empire’ fits that the best of all the movies.
I like characters who have faults. I’m drawn to darker people.
I’d always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.
I embrace my darker skin – always have, always will. In addition, I believe black women have always been trailblazers and trendsetters. Acknowledgement or not, we are and always have been beautiful.
I turn down a lot of movies because sometimes they glamorize violence or the darker side of sex or criminality.
I like a shoot when I feel strong and sexy, a little hard, with a darker edge. That’s what I do best. I like giving a photographer what they want, working with the art director. And modeling is all I’ve ever known.
To me, music’s something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.
Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.
I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to… really not. I’m not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.
The Demon character is something I draw on occasion. It’s something that requires a lot of focus to tap into and really requires the right situation for me to sort of draw on that darker side of my personality.
I like darker, mysterious scents and things that reflect my personality.
I have to be entertained by what I’m writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.
I always want to go darker, and I’m always being advised to stay on the lighter side.
I tend to be a fan of darker shows and love ‘The Americans,’ ‘Ray Donovan,’ ‘True Detective,’ ‘House of Cards’ and ‘Peaky Blinders.’
It’s just interesting that people don’t really know about the roles that I play that are darker. I kind of do a huge blend of really big light things but also really dark indie things, and it just sort of happens to work out that way.
To be in touch with death, and the darker side of life, makes the lighter side more enjoyable.
Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple – sensitively – with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.
I’ve heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. ‘The Gathering’ did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
For all that we can see from the road in China, there is a lot that we cannot see. We miss what’s behind the trees, the cover-ups, the darker side of things – the ingredients that so often drive a reporting trip.
I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
There was a point I felt like everyone was heading in that direction of ‘How can we be darker than ‘Breaking Bad?’
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
When I go to Batman movies, I always think, ‘Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.’ especially as they got darker when they go to the Christian Bale era.
That’s not part of me that I have to do something dark to prove to people that I’m an actor. The fuel for me is the laugh. Maybe later I’ll want to show people the darker side… But right now, I’m having too much fan making people laugh. And it really makes me feel good.
In ‘A Bone in the Throat,’ he describes his protagonist and alter ego, the cook Tommy Pagano, as ‘darker, and not as tall as the chef, his hair stood up straight and spiky like a young Trotsky’s.’ He describes Little Italy with such verve, such flavor, that it is impossible not to smell the streets or taste the food.
I was always drawn to darker sounds, things with an edge and a little bit of grit, things that have a lot of emotion and a lot of drive.
I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
Black Widow’ is definitely the darker part of me. This album is about finding the weakness inside and turning it into strength. It’s about being reborn, setting yourself free and realizing the balance in everything – the dark and the light.
