Quotes About Humanity

Literature is for the sake of humanity.

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

Whenever you work with someone who you idolize, you realize... he's just a person trying to make a movie as best he knows how. And that doesn't look so different from other people trying to do the same thing.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

I still feel like when I walk on the set, I'm starting from scratch, until I realize, 'OK, I do know what I'm doing. I'm human.'

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I always wanted to do a sci-fi movie, but most sci-fi scripts are either about saving the planet or fighting aliens.

To me, people are people. If a woman has a beautiful soul, and she's a celebrity, that's great. But she can be a secretary or a person working at Kmart. I don't care.

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Teach her story to future generations, and at least the moral debt owed to Jean McConville can be repaid. Jean McConville. Jean McConville. Jean McConville.

I think, visually, 'Moon' probably owes more to the first half of 'Alien' and 'Outland' than it does to '2001.' The character of Gerty is obviously a straight rip-and-riff on HAL.

Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

During war time, when people were injured, I was really frustrated I did not become a doctor. It's painful not being able to save people, witnessing their pain.

I've always been interested in how other people live their lives, which is why it's important to engage fully even in painful times. And out of that, I get to laugh.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.

The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well.

Honestly, the pains of humanity have been draining me.

The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.

All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.