Quotes About Depth

None of my on-screen roles have been outright negative. They have all been grey, and that is how it is in reality, too. None of us are nice and sweet 24/7.

Everybody is the way they are because of certain events that have happened in their life. Oftentimes you'll meet somebody who seems a certain way, and then you realize, 'Oh, that guy's actually the sweetest man I know. But I wouldn't have known that from the outset because that's hidden.'

I can't swim. I've got better, but I can't go out of my depth. As soon as I smell chlorine my heart starts racing.

I just feel a bit out of my depth in Sydney.

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

I flee from symbols. I think those who don't want to solve problems go to the symbols. I'm looking for content.

My wheelhouse is intense characters who have a certain sympathetic streak and also a sense of humor.

It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.

Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.

When you listen to a symphony orchestra, and the basses don't - there's no bass part, there's not that much depth. That's why I'm attracted to the instrument, the bass. It brings depth. It's like playing in a rainforest.

Paul is synonymous with the ocean.

Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

There was no deeper truth in the mundanity of violence. That truth sat on the surface and required no mining at all.

For something to be beautiful it doesn't have to be pretty.

The ice is not very thick; the ocean beneath it is deep and tempestuous; and the sun above is warm and melting.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

hay acaso algo más íntimo o más interior que el dolor?

Avec celui que nous aimons, nous avons cessé de parler, et ce n'est pas le silence. --- Gdy z osob? kochan? przestajemy mówi?, nie zapada cisza.

Un homme sans défauts est une montagne sans crevasses. Il ne m'intéresse pas.

It is the Other whom one must love as oneself if one does not desire to idolize and hate the Other in the depths of the underground.

You simply cannot know the depth of your magnificence without the contrast of life.

The notion of [emotional] force, among other things, opens to question the common assumption that the greatest human import always resides in the densest forest of symbols and that cultural depth always equals cultural elaboration. Do people always, in fact, describe most thickly what to them matters most?

The subconscious is not a grave; it's a cistern.