Quotes About Complexity

A person's life is hopefully more than just one thing.

If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.

People see me and assume one thing, and they get to know me and see that there's more there.

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

A novel, at least for me, cannot be visualized at one time.

Nobody wants to play a one-dimensional character.

Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

We all are who we are. We're not necessarily good, and we're not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

If a role has been too one-dimensional, I have turned it down.

No one always or never does anything. People don't see themselves as one-dimensional, so you shouldn't attempt to define them as such.

I have never won big fights just doing one thing, being one-dimensional.

The more complicated the character, the better I am. It's the one-dimensional crap that I had to do for years that drove me crazy.

I'm used to one-dimensional female friendships. It's become a kind of trope.

We're moving away from the one-dimensional nature for women. It used to be that you were known for one thing - a cultural thing, the way you walk, talk or look. Now everybody is allowed to be a layer cake.

I don't know any women who are one-dimensional, so why would I play one?

The things we always disengage with are one-sided stories or one-sided characters. They're very boring. When you feel like you're being hit over the head, you disengage.

I am not interested in one-sided characters.

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

For me, I start at the place that my characters are human. I start at the place that they are onions that are layered and meant to be peeled, just as we as human beings are.

The only difference between me and my critics is that I don't lie to the world about who I am. People are complicated and often seemingly hypocritical. Embrace the diversity of your mind.

You cannot do only one thing.

Often times, if you're a bit of a crossover artist, audiences see you as only one thing.