I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.
Usually people are ashamed when they do something wrong. People love to live in the darkness... I live in the light. I didn't do anything wrong by saving human life.
He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.
I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.
I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.
The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.
I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.
I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
When fail to focus on the light of positivity, the darkness of negativity would start to feel like an unchangeable reality in your life.
I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it's crazy - but no one's oblivious to it.
The rain hit the windows like rice; the fire roared hollowly; the autumn afternoon discoloured into darkness.
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.
Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.
When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light.
I prefer thrillers but when it's thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films.
I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
There is never a restless night for the dark soul. They sleep well within a destiny sealed and accepted in trade for the spoils of the earth
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.