Quotes About Open-mindedness

I enjoy everything. I actually do listen to everything. In high school, I listened to a lot of metal and punk rock.

Whenever I hear someone describe something as a 'kids movie' or a 'family movie,' it immediately has a negative connotation in my mind because I think, 'Well, as an adult, I wouldn't go see it by myself, because it's purely for children and it holds nothing for me and it's simplistic and it's kind of easy.'

I could care less if someone is purple polka-dotted.

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

You don't need to push your beliefs onto other people!

A masterpiece doesn't push you around. It lets you make up your own mind about what it means - and change it as often as you like.

I don't like having to be pushed into a box.

Now, I am not saying that the world is flat, but it could be.

I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.

You've got to be flexible. If you want to win, you have to do whatever it takes.

The best leaders adapt and are flexible with their situations. I try to be the same.

People are so serious about ourselves, and drag suggests that maybe it's all just a bunch of ideas, and we can be a little bit more flexible with them.

The people that only listen to one song from a record and flip around that much, if that's the only way they listen to music, they're probably the kind of people that like music as something to drive to, you know?

Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.

Faith really should be a bridge, not a wall. Because at the end of the day, we should be focusing on what you believe, not what your religion is.

Folks, it's okay to find flamboyant homosexuality funny.

To say, 'Well, he's following X person, so he believes all the things that this person believes'... I think that's ridiculous.

I love experiencing new cultures and new foods.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

Anyone who ghettoizes any form of media is a fool.

I don't want to be part of ideas which are regressive and put us on the back foot.

I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures.