The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.
Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
I think I was an alcoholic. There are all these grey areas about what makes you an alcoholic - you can't cope without it, you stop caring about jobs and relationships, or you just binge.
When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.
To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.
In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
I'm a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are - there's no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don't see!
Good people can do terrible things, and that's what life is all about, the complexities and grey areas. And often characters aren't written that way in movies, especially characters for women. So you end up being either one thing or the other.
I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.
My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.
It is important for me to believe in a team that has ambition. I want to go up and work towards something. I don't want to work in the grey areas and say it is nice to end up 10th or 11th and keep on doing that every year.
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
In the intelligence business you are almost never completely wrong or completely right.
I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.
Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.
The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.
I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.
This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.
You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.
The thing is, I never see my characters as psychopaths. I see them as really crippled victims who just happen to do bad things. And I never see them as bad guys; I see them as darker characters. I never see anything as good or bad; it's more light or dark, and the in-between is the grey.
If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.
President Bush should learn to focus on the shades of grey
Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.
I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
