Arca Quotes

I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment.

I like characters who have two different things going on, whether it is Robin from 'Top Of The Lake' having that strength juxtaposed with the vulnerability and being in pain, or whether it is Peggy from 'Mad Men' with her naivety and her sort of idiocy at times, combined with her intelligence and courage really to do what she did at that time.

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

I'm a full-of-contradictions kind of guy.

There are a lot of different sides to me. I don't know if I'm always peaches-and-cream.

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits.

I'm crazy, but I'm serious. I'm sentimental, but I'm, like, really hard, too. I just want people to understand that I have all these sides inside me.

In Arabic, 'Naseem' means a gentle breeze. But inside the guy's a monster.

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?

Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness.

I never feel the need to go out and make some grand statement that I'm dark and twisty and complicated, because I'm not that either. It's just not as simple as ponies and rainbows, though I do love ponies and rainbows.

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles, but they're certainly not the only roles I can play.

To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.

It's spiritual, a man that has a past and regrets, but you can as a director take a shot, and there's something in the eyes and the face, you just can't fake it, you can't teach it, and I think Ed Harris has that quality.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable. But, there is a side of me that is very put-together, very strong, very capable and very opinionated. It's the two sides of myself.

Your fragility is also your strength.