Quotes About Depth

It's great playing a mature character. It adds something.

In my day, the films you got were about mature people, people with some kind of weight.

I have always believed that if a film has only two characters, but they do not make any sense, then the film's meaningless.

I'm far more interested in putting a little more meat into the lyrics than some people are.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.

Doing comedy stuff is maybe more fun, but maybe the serious stuff is a little bit more rewarding.

Films are fun, but life is much richer.

'Superman/Wonder Woman,' people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasn't emotionally deep. Who knows?

I love the really deep, rip-your-soul-to-shreds stuff, but I also love the romantic comedy.

Love is intense, and sadness is intense.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

I have a scary side of me.

You can't have a beauty scene for beauty's sake.

It doesn't matter about the length of the role. I don't do films for the number of scenes. I go for the quality of my character in the film and the impact that I will have.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I have a whole other side that has yet to be seen on screen.

The deep sea is a scary world.

I was really enjoying playing 'The Sea,' but it is quite an intense and emotional record.

There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.

Cinema is not about wearing 'bikni' and showing 'six packs'... All these are secondary.

As an actor, those kinds of really intense, emotionally packed, dark things, those always very appeal to me greatly.

I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.

The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.