Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.
You can't understand America without understanding the Puritans. In many ways, we're still living out their legacy in ways that are good and bad.
Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Rod Strickland has been influential. He gives me a lot of advice, good and bad games; he is someone I really look up to a lot.
You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.
Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.
I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.
A company should search for every instance of the use of its name and zoom in when there are issues - both good and bad.
But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.
There's no such thing as 'bad' food or 'good' food.
I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.
Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.
I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy.
My career had been split pretty evenly between good guys and bad guys until I finally grew into myself enough to play a decent antihero, where you can combine the two.
You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
