Quotes About Humanity

The only way for something human to feel human is to convince others that it is.

I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.

We all make mistakes, and sometimes the difference that we forget is that the people we read about in the paper and on the Internet and see on TV, behind that is, at its core, a mistake.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

I always say, 'I'm cracked. My characters are cracked. And you, reader, you're cracked, too.'

I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can.

I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

When God created the world, he didn't draw a line between Canada and America.

We believe every child is created equal with the right to life.

Art, when done well, creates empathy.

As human beings, we are God's highest creation.

Our body is part of nature. Our creations, they're not natural. We build things that aren't natural, but our bodies, they're part of that system.

Humans need to touch each other. We need to look at each other... We are human creatures, meant to be linked... So, yes, it's a gift for me to be able to look at somebody that I know or don't know, that I love or maybe not love, and to be able to connect.

People are more complicated than you give them credit for.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.