Hiding behind a tougher outer image as a teenager feels cooler and safer compared to admitting, perhaps, that you're the very opposite.

L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.

I feel very American, but my upbringing was quite the opposite.

I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.

Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!

I am from San Diego, and I went to college in Boston, so I have seen the opposite coasts.

I don't wanna say I'm anti-military as my mission is the exact opposite and I'm a unifying force. I'm there to show everybody that we're all the exact same.

Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.

In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks.

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.

The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.

I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.