Quotes About Subtlety

We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.

My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.

Women's weapon, water-drops.

Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Women's weapons, water-drops.

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet.

I don't really like making too much of a statement with what I'm wearing.

You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

I've always believed in having a sense of balance and stealth.

This is why I urge you to dismiss every clever or subtle thought, no matter how holy or valuable. Cover it over with a thick cloud of forgetting because in this life only love can touch God as he is in himself, never knowledge. As long as we live in these mortal bodies the keenness of our intellect remains dulled by material limitations whenever it deals with

They that govern the most make the least noise.

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

Nothing should be noticed.

The short story can't really hold an interesting event. It can't hold a death or a war or a loss of great magnitude the way either a long story or a novel can.

The artistic world is one of high nuance.

I want to give my characters nuance.

The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.

I'm a writer, so I like nuances.

Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.