Quotes About Depth

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.

Es wäre natürlich ganz und gar verfehlt, das aufzuschreiben, worüber Margot und ich halbe Tage und Nächte lang reden, so intensiv und ehrlich von beiden Seiten, dass man sich fast um Kopf und Kragen redet. (Brief an Klaus Mann, 23. Juli 1940)

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

There are very few profound sayings in the world.

The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.

The funnel of deep feeling and profound satisfaction in life comes from the capacity to feel.

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'

The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity.

Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.

When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

I'm not always happy, I promise. I can be serious.

Impressionable audiences should be seeing characters that are properly fleshed out.

Every character, if fleshed out properly, is being taken seriously.

I like really, properly detailed, described characters.

Me at parties: 'Like, do you want to know the historical context of the prophet Jeremiah?'

God is real. You have a lot of prophets, angels; everything is real, you know. You know me - I'm a deep person, so my mind goes really, really deep.

The beauty of Sudhir's protagonists is that they are not shown as black and white. There are various layers to the characters.

You don't need to like your protagonists.