Quotes About Humanity

I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.

Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us.

People never cease to amaze me.

The arts are a celebration of life.

People are people. All that celebrity tagging doesn't bother me at all.

When you see yourself as the center of things, it deprives you of a certain level of empathy.

I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

It doesn't matter who you are: being human is being human. Everyone has days that are challenging.

It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The audience amplifies the experience.

In my work, I'm always trying not to put barriers up between the 'good poor' and the 'bad poor.' I'm not sure my work will change things much, but at the very least, you want to make people feel that they are not alone.

These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters.

I can't understand for the life of me why people would cheer when somebody gets hurt. I guess that is the sick world that we are sometimes in.

I don't cheer when people lose their lives.

It is not important to have a big chest. But you should have a heart in your chest.

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

I like to write about a lot of things, which is why my books are different. This is probably why I don't like to write sequels, but chiefly I like to write about people.

Even if you're the President of the United States, you still act like a little child and think like a little child sometimes. Childish behavior is what I look for in all of my characters because that is what makes them human.

Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.

I love the Chinese people.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

Christ is born into the world through each of us.

There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.

Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.