When you win, everything is so beautiful, and when you don't, it's not, so everything is darker.

I often played nice guys when I was younger, and it's nice to be able to explore the darker side.

From the outside, being an artist seems like a dream life, but there are much darker aspects to it.

Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

I once lost a role because I was told I am fair. They were looking for a village woman who is darker.

My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

I tried to buy the script of 'Hancock.' I loved it. The script was far darker and edgier than the movie.

I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.

'Political Animals' was before its time: a little darker, a little edgier. The audience wasn't ready for it.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

I turn down a lot of movies because sometimes they glamorize violence or the darker side of sex or criminality.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

I've been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.

Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

That's what's so cool about 'Once:' There is a layer of darker stuff, but it's balanced by this incredible light.

I naturally, when I make beats, aim for a darker tone just because I've always preferred those types of feelings.

There was a point I felt like everyone was heading in that direction of 'How can we be darker than 'Breaking Bad?'

I'd like to just say that there's nothing darker than 'Old Yeller' and 'Bambi' and some of the early Disney stuff.

In my darker moments, I feel like the Queen of England, bound and gagged by reverence. Tin-crowned and irrelevant.

I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.

I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.

I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote the 'Books of Blood'.

Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like writing about it.

Wear a foundation one shade lighter than your skin tone - you can always make it darker, but not lighter, once it's on.

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

I've tried writing darker, more serious songs, but they don't go anywhere. Everything revolves around the chorus for me.

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.

We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.

I feel American comedy is a little too light. World cinema, and Latin cinema, is much more comfortable with darker emotions.

I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.

England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.

I've always been attracted to more intense and darker roles, but I think there is complexity and darkness in comedies as well.

With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also a brighter range.

Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to watch out for.

The United States did not earn its reputation as leader of the free world by standing back and allowing darker forces to prevail.

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

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.

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.

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.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

I tend to be a fan of darker shows and love 'The Americans,' 'Ray Donovan,' 'True Detective,' 'House of Cards' and 'Peaky Blinders.'

I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease.

When I saw the movie 'Black Swan,' I liked the darker aspect of it, the more dramatics, and that's what I like to do for my programs.

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 feel that my purpose is to shed light on some of the darker sides of our world, and to lend a hand and a voice to people struggling.

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.

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