Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.

- James McAvoy

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

- Martin Amis

My best writing has to do with an internal process that I'm working out unconsciously and put into my characters.

- Lyle Kessler

The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one.

- Lloyd Cutler

Touring is a whole other animal for me and a whole other skill. But I'm having a lot of fun figuring all that out and switching it from internal to external and putting on a show.

- Lia Ices

My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.

- Lennie James

I'm not interested in stirring anybody up through music. If you're going to stir people up, it has to be a thought process that has nothing to do with music. I see music as having to do with an internal thing. Something that stirs you up is external.

- Leon Redbone

That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

- Laila Robins

Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

- Jose Manuel Barroso

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

- James Taylor

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

- Alice Walker

The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

- Imtiaz Ali

I have an excellent internal compass.

- Hugh Bonneville

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

- Chris Terrio

I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.

- Conor Oberst

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

- Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

- Antoine Rivarol

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

- Alice Hoffman

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.

- Arnold Palmer

I think I have a lot of internal energy, which does need to come out.

- Andy Serkis