Emptiness Quote by Angela Carter

It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact.…

— Marilynne Robinson

“The movies were wonderful because they took you out of yourself, and at the same time they gave you a sense of being whole.…

— Richard Yates

[I was] feeling like I'd done something horrible, "I'm a despicable person and I'm perverse," and all these things, to a sense of the…

— Wes Craven

I've never felt like I was living in anyone's shadow. My life was what it was.

— Charlie Murphy

I was skeptical about the whole idea of my being in a film.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

— Sylvia Plath

I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in…

— Anonymous

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

— Oscar Wilde

My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.

— Fernando Pessoa

I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it.

— Tom Sturridge

If I'd lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I'd made 16 films.

— Pedro Almodovar

The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have…

— Ellar Coltrane