Quotes About Mystery

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

I'm a very secretive person.

The '50s were a secretive time.

I'm a very secretive person. That's how I grew up. My father was very secretive.

Secretly incredible people keep what they do as one of God's best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know - the God of the universe - already knows.

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.

Everybody has secrets.

I like there to be some secrets.

I have loads of secrets to tell all the time.

In the night there's sometimes a sort of cursed quality to the Pacific Northwest.

Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing.

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

There is a shadow on every page.

There are things I'll never talk about for sure. My life is an open book, but there's always a few secret pages in the back that nobody will be able to read.

When I see an image in my head that compels me, where there's this mystery about what's going to happen next or could happen next, I'll be intrigued. There are so many scripts that you read, and you know exactly what's going to happen, and there aren't too many where you can't tell within the first 20 pages where it's going.

There are nineteen Harry Bosch books, and someone told me if you add up the descriptions of Harry from all of them, it would come to less than three pages. He's very elliptically described over the two decades during which the novels occur. I did that by intention.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Magic is my paint.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.