Opposites Quotes

"Originally I don`t think Slash ever wanted to play with another guitarist. But we both really loved Aerosmith and the Stones and we just used that idea to make it all work. At some point he and I hooked up and we started making it work. It became fun, just working with another guy like him, opposites attrack, I suppose."

(on working with Kevin Spacey on K-PAX and their similarities in working) I`ve been a big fan of his work -- The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, L.A. Confidential. He`s a really good actor and he turns out to be a wonderful guy as well. We approach acting in the same way in that we both enjoy the process. We both like rehearsals and we understand the value of them. There are some actors who don`t like to engage with other actors; they just like to relate to each other between `Action!` and `Cut!` But I`ve always felt that getting to know the people you`re working with can inform and enrich the work. The closer you get, even if you`re playing opposites, the better the work. Some actors are afraid of leaving it all off-camera or getting the characters confused, but I don`t see it that way. I often feel that the actual movie is like the skin sloughed off the snake; it`s the by-product of the real valuable stuff, which is the real-life experience of doing it.

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I`m five feet four.

It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites.

(Ball is one of the few musical comedy artists to have distinguished himself equally as an interpreter of both Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim, who would seem to be polar opposites as songwriters.) I`m very lucky that I`ve gotten to work with both of them, ... I was in Andrew Lloyd Webber`s 50th party concert at the Albert Hall. That same year I was in a special show called Hey, Mr. Producer , a celebration of Cameron Mackintosh`s work. There was a Sondheim section, and Cameron asked if I`d be part of it. I`d already recorded `Losing My Mind` from Follies , which is one of my favorite songs of Steve`s. But I hadn`t yet done a particularly traditional treatment of it. Steve said he wanted me to do it absolutely straight, the way it was heard in the original show, which I was delighted about. And he worked with me on it--just him, and me, and a pianist in a tiny room, for an hour-and-a-half master class on this song. I came away knowing every nuance; why he wrote everything that he did; why every note was in its place; why the phrasing was like this--can you imagine how thrilling that was? And he is so articulate in explaining his work; you can be under no illusion why something is there. When you have that understanding, that is when his work opens up to you. Of course, they put me between Judi Dench singing `Send in the Clowns` and Bernadette Peters doing `Being Alive.` You try holding your own in that company!

It`s this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it`s great.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That`s been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.