Quotes About Depth

Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?

There should be a measure for happiness or sadness, like the width of your smile, the twinkle in your eyes, the depth of your laughter or the salt of your tears.

I'm a simple person who hides a thousand feeling behind the happiest smile.

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Beyond my body my veins are invisible.

I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.

One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.

I think the toughest thing for me to figure out, as an actor, was how to translate all those layers that are in there and that history that the writers have done such a great job at forming.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

Beneath every history, another history.

Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

I always hope for roles that have some depth and that I can get my teeth into and that will challenge me, in some way.

I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow.

And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.

Human faces are such a world!

There's something in everyone only they know.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.