Quotes About Depth

Reality really isn't as dull as it's cracked up to be.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

As for dream roles, they usually just speak to you. I just crave complex characters.

We're all complex creatures, and we shouldn't have to pick one thing to be passionate about. Life isn't black and white, so we shouldn't live that way.

People are more complicated than you give them credit for.

The bottom of the sea is cruel.

I don't actually believe in the genre of comedy. Sometimes when I watch comedies, I can't see the soul of the show. I want to be able to laugh and cry. That is where the magic is. I'm trying to get to that place.

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I would love to tackle an older role and have a little bit more depth, but I do get to have fun with the roles, and I'm quite happy playing young. I quite enjoy being the baby of the cast. It's fun.

Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors.

The relationships we have with dogs seem simple enough and often are taken for granted. But these relationships can be deep and mysterious, and not at all simple.

I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.

I know it's odd. But when I was getting scuba certified, it was explained very early on that you never get to just strap on a tank and jump into the ocean. You have to know how deep you're going, and the deeper you go, the less amount of time you stay down there - and it takes longer to get to the surface.

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

Superficiality is the curse of our age.

If we hope to move beyond the superficialities of our culture, including our religious culture, we must be willing to go down into the recreating silences, into the inner world of contemplation.

It is a hallow feeling to be in the company of someone with whom we long to have a satisfying personal exchange, only to watch hope dissolve as the time together is drained by superficial chatter or surface distractions.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul.