Jason Clarke Quotes

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

I think, to me, I was always taught you never approach any character as a villain. Every human being on earth really believes that they're doing the best thing. We all have our rationalizations.

The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.

I am sorry that as leader of the community, San Antonio and my name go together. But I guess human beings just aren't made of plastic and wiring and metal. They are made of flesh and blood and feelings.

Redemption should be part of politics, because it’s part of the human pageant.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

I am constantly interested in people who society calls 'bad' because I don't like to just buy into something that everybody's going to say. I want to investigate that for myself. With a character, you get to fully investigate that emotionally and understand the parts of them that are in pain and scared and are good. That's human.

I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

Play the role as a human being... human beings are three-dimensional.

If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it's easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder.

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else's shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

I can find some part of me that relates to even the most evil characters. At least in my imagination.

You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody's behaving 'inhuman,' it's not. It's very human - it's just not a very nice side of it.

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

Those who understand evil pardon it.

You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself -- theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.