Emotional Layers Quotes

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.

Sometimes when you're playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That's much more interesting to me, rather than just playing 'intense.' I find it too boring.

The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing inhibitions. The deep, emotional layers of our personality simply do not register the fact that the crooking of the finger to release a shot tears the entrails of another man.

'The Good Parts' is me telling as much as I can of the deeper sides of myself that I haven't shared before. It's like an onion that gets deeper every time you cut it.

No emotion is the final one.

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.

A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there.

I think what's most fun is playing someone who's sort of selfish and in a lot of ways unlikeable, but there's this really big heart underneath it that you get little glimpses of.

It would be amazing to play Sylvia Plath. She was so dark, and what came out of her writing was troubled and fierce. The dimensions, levels, layers and levels would be incredible to take on.

I mean, what if love isn't a yes-or-no question? It's not either you're in love or you're not. I mean, aren't there different levels? And maybe these things, like words and expectations and whatever, don't go on top of the love. Maybe it's like a map, and they all have their own place, and then when you see it from the sky - whoa.

I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.

If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in the closet; they've always got a subtext.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.