Lorrie Moore Quotes

We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else.

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

It's challenging, in a way, but if you depict anyone with all the colors of human emotion and show those moments - with their families, with their children - the worst of us have elements of real humanity.

Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!

There are really a lot of dark shadings to a lot of my stuff.

I definitely have a lot of different layers inside of me.

With each character in a movie, I'm looking for a human being. I'm looking for a person. And to me, I'm looking for a person that's full of strengths and weaknesses, a person that's full of successes and failures, a person that's full of joy and sorrow. I'm interested in people that are human beings that are alive.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

I'm not the dude with the message. I'm a human being with different sides, different shades and different emotions, different feelings.

I always respond to characters who have depth. I'm always interested in those people. They're the ones who surprise you.

What can I say? I'm a complicated guy.

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.

You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?

As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.

Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion.

It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.