Depth of Feeling Quotes

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

I think playing a negative character is more difficult and challenging, since you have a lot to work on, and you have to put a lot of efforts.

Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

The human heart is no small thing, for it can embrace so much.

At the end of the day, I choose something that makes my heart beat, that I can relate to, that's very complex, or human.

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.

Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over, find out what's on the other side, and everyone has a story to tell os a woman or a brothel or an opium night or a war. We fear it. We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much.

Thoughts create only according to their pitch, intensity, emotional quality, depth of feeling, or vibrational plane.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried

I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.

When you have a lot going on in a scene - whether it be a lot of shots, a lot of coverage, a lot of edits, or just the amount of content - it can cover up a deficit of true feeling. But when you don't have a lot of material to work with, you really have to be sincere with everything. You really have to mean it, because there's nowhere to hide.

I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.” - Verb.

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories about how a toddler fell on the tracks, and it's often a teenager who comes to the rescue and walks away because he or she doesn't want any credit. I recognize it because I've written books for teenagers--it's basically that they feel things more than adults do. They want things more than you think. They want things with greater depth than you think they do. Teenagers have got a lot of soul that adults have forgotten they have within themselves.

The eyes are the windows of the soul.... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see?

She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment.

Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.

Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.