You don't have people who are monsters and only do bad. There's good and bad for everybody. It's all a spectrum.
You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.
Nobody is all good or bad.
I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.
Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.
With the world in the state it is today, whoever is virtuous must be so to the point of sainthood, and even beyond; whoever is a sinner must be so to the point of bestiality and even beyond. Today the middle road is no more.
Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.
There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.
People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.
Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?
Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.
I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.
I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a character. Every character is somewhere on a moral spectrum.
People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day.
I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.
I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
