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Daily Inspiration Quote by Bobby Farrelly

"I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light"

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Bobby Farrelly’s line reads like a soft-edged confession from someone who’s spent a career mining human messiness for laughs. “Darkness” is a broad, almost therapeutic word here, but that vagueness is the point: it covers everything from insecurity and bad habits to cynicism and private shame without forcing a tabloid inventory. Farrelly isn’t asking for sympathy; he’s normalizing the idea that even decent people carry uglier impulses around, and that pretending otherwise is the real dishonesty.

The pivot - “But when we are together” - frames partnership as an editing process. Not a magical cure, not a soulmate fantasy, but a practical shift in attention. “Concentrate” is the key verb: it implies choice, discipline, and a kind of mutual coaching. The light doesn’t erase the darkness; it just wins the bandwidth. That’s a surprisingly mature articulation of intimacy for a filmmaker associated with gross-out comedy and big-hearted misfits: connection as a behavioral nudge, a shared agreement about what parts of the self get amplified.

There’s also a creator’s subtext in it. Farrelly’s best work often hinges on the tension between cruelty and tenderness - jokes that flirt with meanness, then land on empathy. This quote functions like a personal mission statement: yes, the darker material is there, it’s even useful, but the real craft (in love, in collaboration, in comedy) is deciding what you’re ultimately spotlighting.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Farrelly, Bobby. (2026, January 16). I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-we-both-have-some-darkness-in-us-but-when-131934/

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Farrelly, Bobby. "I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-we-both-have-some-darkness-in-us-but-when-131934/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-we-both-have-some-darkness-in-us-but-when-131934/. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.

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Bobby Farrelly (born June 17, 1958) is a Director from USA.

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