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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character. -- Olga Kurylenko
If a role has been too one-dimensional, I have turned it down. -- Imogen Poots
Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit. -- Mark Webber
Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both. -- Alexander Skarsgard
Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional. -- Ian Anderson
Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy. -- Mickey Rourke
If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings. -- Geri Halliwell
I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system. -- Vera Farmiga
As a writer, I have to show complexities. Through my writings, I hope to bring out people in different situations and not just one-dimensional beings. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created a money-centric world. -- Muhammad Yunus
Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines. -- Mark McKinnon
I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there. -- Chance The Rapper
I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically. -- Tom Jenkinson
It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional. -- Billie Jean King
Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk. -- Bruce Dickinson
To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted. -- T.I.
I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army, and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional. I'd like to think I'm a caring human being. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection. -- Annabelle Selldorf
People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him. -- Tom Felton
I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations. -- Q-Tip
I don't like the idea of playing a one-dimensional character who is just fearless, strong, and killer and has instincts and just thrives in dangerous circumstances - that's really boring to me, and I don't think it represents what most women feel inside. -- Evangeline Lilly
In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. -- Marilyn Manson
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional. -- Hugo Weaving
Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need to know about that gene. But proteins are three-dimensional. They have to be because we are three-dimensional, and we're made of those proteins. Otherwise we'd all sort of be linear, unimaginably weird creatures. -- Francis Collins
The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the black women on 'Community' and 'Parks and Recreation' - they are the archetype of the large black women on television. Snide and sassy. -- Issa Rae
There are no one dimensional people. -- Demetria McKinney
Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking. -- Lesley Hazleton
One point of view gives a one dimensional world. -- Liz Murray
I never want to play a character that's one-dimensional. -- Laura Vandervoort
People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them. -- Frank Schaeffer
I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters. -- Geena Davis
I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters. -- Ti West
The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror. -- Theodor Haecker
I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated. -- Robert Redford
Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional. -- Danny Glover
I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor. -- Rodrigo Santoro
No human beings are one-dimensional, and if they feel one-dimensional to you, it's because you don't know them. -- Dominic Monaghan
I don't want to be a leader that is one-dimensional or two-dimensional because he's not willing to be open. -- Nate Parker
Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I've done. -- James Sanborn
We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible things in life and the destruction. -- Stevie Wonder
That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one. -- Jonathan Ive
Traditional guidelines for manifestation in the three-dimensional world are not enough to ensure manifestation once one has begun the process of energetic evolution. -- Elaine Seiler
It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending. -- L. Todd Rose
We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life. -- Frederick Lenz
We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life. -- Frederick Lenz
One thing I have seen, regardless of the method of aprehenesion of the dimensional plane one is in, is self-giving and how effective it is. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are they all good. -- Bakari Kitwana
Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting. -- Kari Matchett
It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man. -- Matt Bomer
One thing I have seen, regardless of the method of aprehenesion of the dimensional plane one is in, is self-giving and how effective it is. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I honestly think that a Pavlik fight would be easier than Jones because styles make fights. He's one dimensional, comes in straight lines, I love that. -- Joe Calzaghe
I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people. -- Thomas Piketty
Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team. -- Jared Leto
We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels. -- Yoweri Museveni
Night of the Comet' established me as a strong woman. And let's face it, this business is very surface and one dimensional - so it's easy to get typecast. -- Catherine Mary Stewart
What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news! -- Terence McKenna
We all, as human beings, have different layers, and if we become one-dimensional or really superficial, then I still think there are things that happened that got us to that place. -- Kalup Linzy
Usually the kids are portrayed as very one-dimensional. Like these mindless animals that just have three things on their minds: getting laid, getting drunk, and driving real fast over Mulholland Drive. -- Molly Ringwald
Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He's wrathful, but at other times, He's incredibly compassionate. He's not a one-dimensional figure at all. -- A. J. Jacobs
What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it. -- M.I.A.
I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election. -- Jordan Peele
People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown. -- Chogyam Trungpa
One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations. -- Herbert Marcuse

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