William Ernest Henley Quotes

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.

I consider myself a humanist. Even if I do very dark worlds, I try to make those characters real humans as opposed to just cartoons.

I'm a deep person. I'm not a superficial person at all.

Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet there was no bad feeling, no malice, no rancour, no littleness in his countenance, beautiful with a man's best beauty, even in its depression. When I placed his chair at the table, which I hastened to do, anticipating the servant, and when I handed him his tea, which I did with trembling care, he said: "Thank you, Lucy," in as kindly a tone of his full pleasant voice as ever my ear welcomed.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.

'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do, but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.

I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life.

Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.

I love the powerful woman who's complicated. There's no push to be one thing or another thing. It's all human. That's what you look for as an actor: characters written and portrayed in the most human way possible.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity.

I am a really sensitive person.

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth - and I know it.

I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

I like character-driven stuff that shows humanity and something that can make people think.

I was a sensitive boy.

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.