Psychological Nuance Quotes

Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.

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

There is always going to be depth and layers to people and that's what interests me in a character: when there is some problem to overcome, when there is a complication to understand in a person.

People are more complicated than you give them credit for.

I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I was distressed to find so much vindictiveness in so charming a creature. I did not realize how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being. Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?

To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.

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

I think we all have a bunch of different people inside of us, and then for a particular role you bring a certain side of that self of yourself forward to sort of play, but it's always really dimensionalised.

I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It's hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.

No person is just one particular emotion.

They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.

In every dimension, metaphysical, political, psychological, and existential, it was a magnificent victory ... within the context of our defeat.

If you're going to play human beings, and you're going to play them three-dimensionally, you have to show every side of them.

Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.