Quotes About Humanity

I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal.

My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters.

You can't help it as a human being when you're put under so much scrutiny by multiple people, not even just one person in real life, telling you something. It harms you.

In real life, I'm the kind of person that if I use Siri, I thank her afterwards.

I grew up as a Christian, and one of the many things in Christian mythology that did not dovetail with real life is that human beings are not monochromatic in their being.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

I think people are interesting enough. People with mental illness, or just real people going through real circumstances in life.

I like people that are real people. Real people are broad; they make mistakes.

A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people.

My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.

There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.

I think it's important to play real people.

Policy is about real people and real stories, and sometimes we forget that.

I don't have any special approach for playing dark characters. That's because I never looked at them as dark characters per se. For me, they were real people.

At the end of the day, we are real people going through real things.

Most people never really sat down and got to know a homeless person, but every homeless person is just a real person that was created by God and it is the same kind of different as us; they just have a different story.

I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.

We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.

I do what I do to inspire people. They can't be inspired by an ego, a big-headed person. It doesn't work. It doesn't match. And I really want to be that role model for people, for children. I want to be real. To my fans, I want them to view me as a real person. Don't put me on a pedestal. I'm human. I make mistakes, I cry, I hurt - just like you.

We have this real problem as human beings to put people on pedestals - with celebrities, with historical figures - and we forget they're humans just like us.