Quotes About Depth

Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.

I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.

Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.

That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

Nobody can ever describe how much you explore a character on a Peter Berg movie until you're doing it.

I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.

You can't be too concerned with the philosophical meanings of the character and how it will affect everything else.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

I don't read enough books, so I guess I'm pretty shallow. I'm a lot into the physical. With me, first attraction is never intellectual.

For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

'Medea' is an enormous challenge for an actor physically, mentally, emotionally. You have to dig very, very deep, and to work, your performance has to be very personal.

I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me.

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

We definitely wanted to show we're a band that can be around, and we have something to say other than the lighter, 'pickup line' sort of songs.

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.

I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.

To me, Jefferson Pierce represented every side of me. I knew that I would be able to flesh him out.

The Gift' doesn't deal with the neat, tie-me-up-with-a-bow kind of stories - they are grittier, messier, and not all of them have a happy resolution. You are following people and events that are more difficult, more elusive, and therefore harder to pin down.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.