Personality Depth Quotes

You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.

I'm excited to work on something where I have a bit more time with it, to explore one personality. That's definitely exciting to me.

I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.

I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible.

Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama. So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.

People often only see one side to someone's personality, but there are levels.

Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.

People are much more interesting than people realise.

Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.

People are more than their first impressions. And even if someone seems like a lot, or seems this way or that way, it doesn't mean they're not a three-dimensional person, with a real life.

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.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.

It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.

I mean every character you totally, you know, the full fiber of the personality is kept in the film, and all of those little moments, all those funny little tidbits are all in there.

I don't find anything black and white; I find grey in every person, and that is what excites me.

No human beings are one-dimensional, and if they feel one-dimensional to you, it's because you don't know them.