Quotes About Depth

'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime.

I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.

As anyone who reads Marvel comics will tell you, it's actually more important that you understand the people that are inside the mask, as opposed to the mask and the cowl or anything else like that.

I do not want the things I do to be easy and predictable. I want them to be real.

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal.

People don't know how deep, loving, and caring 'Pac was. He was more than a rapper or an actor: he was a real friend.

My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.

Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.

I like to play people that are real, a real person, and then something that's interesting with that person. I think it's a lot more challenging to do that than something that's extremely fantasy-like.

Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

People are much more interesting than people realise.

I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.

I realised that identity always seemed to be an issue when it was challenged - thats when it seemed to be most in 3D, so that you could look at it.

I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.

I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.

I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.

I like method actors who don't focus on the glamorous side, but on realistic acting.

For me, I need to be able to show up on set and fart around and goof around. If I can have that, when I'm not acting, then when I'm acting I can go however deep and dark and bad I need to. I developed that more with 'Breaking Bad' because I've never worked on anything as dark for as long.

For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.