Darker Quotes

See also Dark Quotes

When I was a child, I was a natural towhead. Now my hair is naturally a darker shade of blonde.

- Nicole Kidman

“That was Johnny Cash. He was a complete person. He acknowledged the darker side of his mind. He didn`t try to deny it. Most of us are forced into labeling ourselves or others, but that`s something John wouldn`t do. This is a man who sang, `I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die,` on `Folsom Prison Blues,` and then would revel in singing the spirituals and would, in fact, leave Sun Records because Sam Phillips wouldn`t let him record an album of gospel songs.”

- Joaquin Phoenix

Chris (Christopher Eccleston) was always grumpy. You don`t always have to be intense. There comes a point when intensity makes you miserable - I think that was the case with Chris. I much prefer working with David (David Tennant) - he likes to have a bit more fun, he`s more charismatic as a person. Chris might have been a great Doc but he was darker and had a chip on his shoulder, he was not as much fun on set as David. I will give him the credit that he was the first Doctor to bring back the series and made a damn good job of it. But I just wouldn`t go to the pub with him. On the other hand, David`s been to my house, we went to the Madonna concert with our partners - we socialise together. He`s a lot more fun.

- John Barrowman

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it`s always the darker stuff.

- Naomi Watts

Yeah, I suppose I am ordinarily drawn to the darker stuff. You won`t find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don`t speak to me. People don`t come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I`m this dark, twisted, miserable person.

- Naomi Watts

"As much as I love Star Wars (1977) and as much as it`s really revolutionized the imaging business, it went off the rails in the sense that science fiction, historically, was a science fiction of ideas. It was thematic fiction. It stopped being that and became just pure eye candy and pure entertainment. And I miss that. With Battle Angel (2007) I`m going to flirt with that darker, dystopian message as much as I can, without making it an art film."

- James Cameron

(talking about her character from Batman Forever (1995)) Chase is attracted to the darker side of life. Batman is very appealing to her.

- Nicole Kidman

Saber River was a darker story. That character was at a darker point in his life and was carrying a secret that was kind of eating away at him.

- Tom Selleck

Not many people know this about me but I`m a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child as I loved the look then. So I`m basically a natural blonde.

- Angelina Jolie

Sometimes the darker stuff has greater potential for drama, it`s always interesting to investigate things that you might come across in your own life.

- Cillian Murphy

(Of his role in Margot at the Wedding (2007)) I had to show some darker sides of myself than I have in roles past. It was challenging. I was most worried about the crying scenes and the nudity. But I sucked it up and went to those places because I just had to look over at Jennifer (Jason Leigh) who was so fearless in her performance.

- Jack Black

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

- Jennifer Capriati

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare`s characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

- Kenneth Branagh

I`m more prone to his `70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I`m more drawn to the darker, sadder songs.

- Lisa Marie Presley

I`d always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.

- Melissa Joan Hart

I`ve played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

- Natasha Richardson

It`s generally an upbeat album. Sonically, it`s uptempo and danceable. I like that people consider us positive, but I want people to realize that we`re delving into sometimes painful, sometimes darker issues, but that we find a way to find a solution to it.

- Nick Hexum

(on the film Poltergeist (1982)): Poltergeist is the darker side of my nature, it`s me when I was scaring my younger sisters half to death. In Poltergeist, I wanted to terrify and I also wanted to amuse - I tried to mix the laughs and screams together.

- Steven Spielberg

They had New York gritty, darker people, and all of a sudden they decided to make a change and I couldn`t be more happy. Because I got a job!

- Elisabeth Röhm

The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.

- Taryn Manning

The original version of the screenplay was much darker, and portrayed the central character as more of an Everyman. It was also set in Manhattan.

- Peter Weir

Fort` is something that`s heavy and militant. `Minor` is taken one of two ways: either meaning small or meaning ... between the two basic chords in music theory, you`ve got major or minor, and minor is described as the darker, sadder chord. The album is about the dynamic when you put all those things together. You`ve got that spectrum.

- Mike Shinoda

So Ric is forced into the position of having to do something he would never have intended to do. Ric thinks, `I have to stand by him.` He is pulled back to a place of a much darker Ric - the same place he was in when he was holding a pillow over Elizabeth`s head and chaining Carly to the wall. But when he actually shoots Ruiz, it surprises him. It certainly surprises Ruiz.

- Rick Hearst

The darker the character, the more interesting.

- Robert Carlyle

So I end up using about ten tubes of lipstick a day. I`ve even had to buy a darker kind than I prefer to wear in order to make a better print.

- Cleo Moore

You have to see the darker side of someone before you can say that you really know them.

- Pierre Bouvier

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

- Dean Koontz

New York in the winter ... brought out some darker places in us . Emotionally darker.

- Ryan Key

To me, Batman is definately Bruce Wayne`s darker side. The challenge is playing it as two separate aspects of the same person. I have to create the illusion of a Dark Knight, who`s mysterious and strong.

- Kevin Conroy

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody`s fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

- Richard Russo

Society`s getting darker, so are the comics.

- Jason Brown

It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black sea.

- Lemony Snicket

Hope, like the gleaming taper`s light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

- Oliver Goldsmith

It`s darker than you first perceive it to be, ... The American film company comes in and rides roughshod over people, but so do the other characters.

- Andy Gray

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

- Alice Maria Gomes

You find Latin girls who are as dark or darker than I am, so it wasn`t about where they came from, ... I think people just like to celebrate their own beauty now rather than be put into a box.

- Andy Hudspeath

I think INXS wants to see a darker side of me,

- Anita Walker

The most important innovation for `Desperate Housewives` wasn`t its being a prime-time soap opera, ... That`s played well since `Peyton Place.` Rather, it was its post-modern treatment. It worked well as prime-time escapism, but also there was a darker current that played like a cross between `American Beauty` and `Dynasty.`

- Arthur Agatston

There always seems to be someone looking over your shoulder - just waiting for an opportunity to lecture on The Darker Side of Chocolate

- Barbara Acton-Bond

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

- Friedrich Nietzsche