Quotes About Depth

People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.

In life, we are all more than one thing, but for some reason in movies, you're either this or that. It reduces the complexity of a human being in so many ways.

The audience basically likes complex characters, and bringing out the complexities is the actor's job. The audience doesn't have the script, the actor does.

Life has many of its own complexities, people don't want to see that on screen too.

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

I like complicated characters.

I am a very complicated person.

I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.

I like playing interesting, complicated women.

I love how complicated we are. We are complicated because of what we've had and lived.

I think the concept of the sea is very important.

I don't want people to confuse me as an MC that talk about nothing.

I don't really like simple characters too much; it's too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen.

In my mid-twenties, I was with a conducting career, but I had never been to university and I wanted to. There were things I wanted to study in depth. I also wanted to see if I could survive without music.

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is a specific example of an artist whose work contains more than you think it does at first glance. Whose work rewards, sustains attention and looking.

It's not all about looks. If someone can sustain a good intellectual 'conversation, I find that very 'attractive.

A story has to have several layers to sustain audience interest in each episode.

The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained.

People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.

Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.

Not all roles you do can be chocolate sweet.

I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.