Henry James Quotes

She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

I don't feel like a 40-year-old. I feel more like four 10-year-olds, each pulling in a different direction.

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

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it.

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

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

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.

Everybody is always in the middle of their own opera.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Periodically, my mind is blown and I'm swamped in feelings I can't deny.

I like being able to play women that are growing or aren't easy to love. Maybe they are really likable, but they're annoying because they're not tapping into who they're suppose to be. You're watching them, and you're like, 'Oh, why does she keep making this decision?'

I am always fascinated by the mental struggles that people and characters have.

I like the movies that embrace the complexity of the human condition.

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

With 'Lonely Thug,' I constructed a fantasy character who was very masculine and strong and almost threatening, but his demeanor belied some complication.

Yes, I think I am like the sea. I appear calm on the surface, but there's a lot going on within. Many a times, I may not react to certain things, but that doesn't mean that I don't care or I don't have emotions.

Even on my most angry song, I'm also still saying, 'Thank you for helping me to learn.' I've always wanted to give voice to that complexity in our experience.

I look for a layered character who has problems and issues - which, by the way, we all do have.

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?

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.