Quotes About Depth

I'll never put out some super-dumbed-down music. It'll always have some substance to it.

People think I don't have substance and I'm just another pretty face.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance.

People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance.

We can't put up a movie that looks beautiful but doesn't have substance.

I'm not about sound bites. I'm about substance.

When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.

Everybody talking about being afraid of being boring is boring. You have to go for the real substance of life after awhile.

I wanted to be different and went in for roles with substance after my first film itself.

Sensationalism is entertaining, but substance is what matters.

I hope to get roles that are not just glamorous, but also have some substance.

Just because something is melodic or catchy doesn't mean that it doesn't have depth and substance and progressive sensibilities.

I like men of substance.

I don't look at the length of the role, but yes I'm looking for substance.

There's a lot of music out there that's like, 'I'm so mad! I'm sad! I'm into skulls and crossbones and the color black,' and that's just meaningless and shallow. So much of metal is about that and it's hard to find metal that is substantial and meaningful in terms of its content.

It's important, at least for me, that while we're entertaining, there's also something substantive to talk about.

If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in the closet; they've always got a subtext.

It's always a balance between something that touches you intimately and something that you think is going to be generous - I like to find intimate, subtle subjects and bring them into strong story telling.

I think you can say so much about a character in lots of subtle ways.

When you're doing lots and lots of episodes and you're playing the same character, it's great because you really get to know the character and it becomes a really fast style and you find subtleties in it.

I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.