Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

The Sophisticate: “The world isn’t black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It’s all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else.”

The Zetet: “Knowing only gray, you conclude that all grays are the same shade. You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-color view….

Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat.