Quotes About Sensitivity

For me, it's a feel thing; it's a mechanical thing.

I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.'

I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.

My process as an actor is all about energy, just feeling the person in your body. I can feel their rhythm, I can feel how they speak, and I know what their response will be to everything.

I know if someone is coming from my right side. I could feel it.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

I'm almost completely ruled by my emotions.

Nude scenes aren't fun.

That's the mark of a really great actor, when he can make you feel the emotion without having to search for it.

Owl City is exactly as you'd imagine him. It's hard to have much on him. He's like a frightened bunny. I feel like if you yelled at him, he'd just dart to a corner of the room.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

For me, artists are the world's pain receptors. That is why they have such a hard time living.

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

Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

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.

As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you too hard because I can see this is painful for you.'

Waxing is a very painful exercise and I don't know how women do it so often.

My palate is very sensitive with food.

The nerves were so badly compressed that I had no feeling on the palm of my hand. I mean, you could have pounded a nail through my hand and I wouldn't have been able to feel it.

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.

I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am.

I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.

Any scene I've ever played where I've thought people who watch it had experienced something like that - for example, people who've had to deal with losing a parent - I want to do it as respectfully as possible for those people.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.