Quotes About Depth

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

I never go for the stereotypically good-looking guy. Maybe it's unfair, but if I see a good-looking guy, inside I'm like, 'What does he have to offer?'

People are complicated. People have secrets. It doesnt make them good people or bad people.

I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.

The bad guys are not typical, they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.

What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.