(In reference to King Kong (1933)) "He (Merian Cooper) called me into his office and showed me sketches of jungle scenes and told me, `You`re going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood.` Naturally, I thought Clark Gable. But then he showed me this sketch of a giant ape up the side of the Empire State Building, and he said, `There`s your leading man.`" (2004)
- Fay WrayI`m not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in. Actually, I think that it`s the comedians who are the darkest people on the planet, because they think life`s just bloody hilarious. - on the usual dark roles that she is known for.
- Naomi WattsEven in your darkest moments, you`ll think of something that`ll crack you up.
- Brad PaisleyI have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn`t dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.
- Geri HalliwellI have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you`ve ever heard.
- Kathy GriffinAm I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?
- Kevin SpaceyNewman`s second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.
- Paul NewmanWe both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there`s another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.
- Terrence HowardIt is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
- Aristotle OnassisEven in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
- Balthazar GettyWe don`t really know who woman is. She remains in that precise place within man where darkness begins. Talking about women means talking about the darkest part of ourselves, the undeveloped part, the true mystery within. In the beginning, I believe man was complete and androgynous-both male and female, or neither, like angels. Then came the division, and Eve was taken from him. So the problem for man is to reunite himself with the other half of his being, to find the woman who is right for him-right be she is simply a projection, a mirror of himself. A man can`t become whole or free until he has set woman free-his woman. It`s his responsibility, not hers. He can`t be complete, truly alive until he makes her his sexual companion, and not a slave of libidinous acts or a saint with a halo.
- Federico FelliniRace prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
- Pearl S. BuckMy music had roots which I`d dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
- Ray CharlesWe must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
- Saul AlinskyI find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
- The Dalai LamaTowards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.
- Jonah LomuI like to feel the burn of the audience`s eyes when I`m whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
- Conor OberstAnd Sharkey says: Deep in the heart of darkest America. Home of the brave. He says: Listen to my heart beat.
- Laurie AndersonRemember the words of Chairman Mao: `It`s always darkest before it`s totally black.`.
- John McCainIn times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.
- Michael BurgessIt always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.
- Charlie BrownI think he`s a great millennial figure because he represents one of the darkest extremes of Western culture, ... I think he wrote in uncharted waters. His writing is pitch black, and I don`t think any writer before or since had touched bottom in the human psyche. I think Sade goes there and goes there relentlessly.
- Doug WrightThe darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
- Dante AlighieriIn the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
- William McKinleyTimes of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
- Aaron McFarlandThe eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.
- Alex KrollThe darkest hour in any man`s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
- Alexandre LeducTwo qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
- Allen JacksonIn politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
- Allison ForsythThe Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
- Andrea BagleyNo nation can now shut itself up from the surrounding world, and trot round in the same old path of its fathers without interference. The time was when such could be done. Long established customs of hurtful character could formerly fence themselves in, and do their evil work with social impunity. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. ... Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. ... What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
- Andy GreenbergIf the tobacco officials had really changed, ... they would not have waited until Minnesota secured a court order to mandate the documents` release, and if tobacco officials had really changed, they would not perpetuate their cover-up by continuing to block our efforts to uncover 39,000 documents containing their deepest, darkest secrets.
- Angelos Anastasiou(But despite the fact that she sloughed off Libby`s assurance that he had given her a waiver a year ago as White House) spin, ... The Scooter-Judy liaison dangereuse exposes how, during happier times between them, the darkest heart of the Bush administration was able to beat freely on the front page of the world`s most important paper, with no hard questions asked.
- Arthur KornbergThings are always darkest just before they go pitch black.
- Artie BradenI like to feel the burn of the audience`s eyes when I`m whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone
- Conor OberstWhen it is darkest, men see the stars.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonThe darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
- Dante AlighieriThousands of men executed and buried in mass graves, hundreds of men buried alive, men and women mutilated and slaughtered, children killed before their mothers` eyes, a grandfather forced to eat the liver of his own grandson. These are truly scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history.
- Fouad RiadThe darkest day in a man`s career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it
- Horace GreeleyIt`s always darkest before the dawn
- ProverbI am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.
- Taylor Caldwell