The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
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.
You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
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 can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
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.
