I’m so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people. – Carine Roitfeld
‘The Hobbit’ was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the ‘riddles in the dark’ passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years. – Andy Serkis
There’s a series of children’s books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it. – Barry Sonnenfeld
When I started modeling, it was like, ‘Oh, she’s too dark,’ and I kind of looked at them like, ‘You’re too daft.’ – Alek Wek
In the case of ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, an issue that is central to the film – torture – is so important that I feel I must say something. Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow have been irresponsible and inaccurate in the way they have treated this issue in their film. – Alex Gibney
I don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes. – Bruno Mars
When I was in the middle of the ‘Scott Pilgrim’ series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it. – Bryan Lee O’Malley
My face is almost like a canvas – a blank canvas in the sense that the hair on my face is very, very fine and my skin is incredibly fair and my hair is quite dark, and that’s very unusual. – Andrea Riseborough
It’s a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can’t always do that. – Antoine Fuqua
For me, I need to be able to show up on set and fart around and goof around. If I can have that, when I’m not acting, then when I’m acting I can go however deep and dark and bad I need to. I developed that more with ‘Breaking Bad’ because I’ve never worked on anything as dark for as long. – Betsy Brandt
I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment. – Bill Brandt
For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling me back. – Anna Netrebko
There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It’s a difficult place if you don’t know people, and if you can’t drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble. – Amanda Eliasch
I’m not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it’s true, but I do have a sense of humor. – Alan Moore
I’ve had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn’t get to me. – Annie Lennox
We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. – Albert Barnes
Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance. – Barry Unsworth
The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. – Agnes de Mille
There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‘even’ all the time. We all have our dark sides. – Angelina Jolie
I feel funny about owning art. I don’t really want to say: ‘Wow, come and see my Monet – it’s in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.’ – Baz Luhrmann