As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.
I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.
The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.
I don't make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It's magic.
History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.
Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.
All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.
They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.
I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.
I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Bad is so bad, that we cannot but think good an accident; good is so good, that we feel certain that evil could be explained.
There's only one thing in life more dangerous than a bad idea, and that's a good one.
I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
