Quotes About Depth

Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc.

A person's life is hopefully more than just one thing.

If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.

People see me and assume one thing, and they get to know me and see that there's more there.

Nobody wants to play a one-dimensional character.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

If a role has been too one-dimensional, I have turned it down.

No one always or never does anything. People don't see themselves as one-dimensional, so you shouldn't attempt to define them as such.

The more complicated the character, the better I am. It's the one-dimensional crap that I had to do for years that drove me crazy.

I'm used to one-dimensional female friendships. It's become a kind of trope.

I don't know any women who are one-dimensional, so why would I play one?

I don't do one-liners, because you don't learn anything about that comedian.

The things we always disengage with are one-sided stories or one-sided characters. They're very boring. When you feel like you're being hit over the head, you disengage.

I am not interested in one-sided characters.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

For me, I start at the place that my characters are human. I start at the place that they are onions that are layered and meant to be peeled, just as we as human beings are.

Onstage, there's a separation between character and audience; onscreen, you can go to a deeper place.

I feel like Black Thought is a name that has so much meaning and depth, not only to me but to my fans, that it's something that I wanted to hold onto a little bit tighter.

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. the loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude

I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice. Lord Henry smiled. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. (...) Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures