Quotes About Sensitivity

I'm the kid in school who always, you know, got the straight A's. I got to be that, you know, alpha aggressive work-ethic guy. And to have people assume that I was just this blithe, in-your-face guy writing crap, tossing it off, garnering insane amounts of money, and laughing all the way to the bank - frankly, I guess I got sensitive.

I'm trying to tell men, 'Really show yourself. Do not be macho, because the biggest turnoff for a woman is a macho guy because women, they're very sensitive. They know you're macho because you're insecure.'

There's a difference between being culturally insensitive - being insensitive towards a culture - and being insensitive.

If the story is insensitive to a person and is not nuanced enough, that's a story I don't want to be a part of. Otherwise there is no other character that I don't want to play.

There's a big difference between being racist and racially insensitive.

Nothing is too controversial, but you have to think about how to do it with sensitivity. I don't try to be insensitive. I think really, really carefully about exactly what things mean and how they will affect people.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

I know when people are with me or not. It's an instinct.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

I do not want to insult anyone with my act and am very careful about it.

Snowflakery is simply being human, which makes it a pretty flakey insult.

The word 'embarrassing' is an insulting word, to tell you the truth.

I make sure not to do anything which can be insulting for women- something very common in Punjabi films.

I have found out what I am allergic to, and I am trying to avoid that in my daily food intake.

The league has to be sensitive about what crosses the line and what doesn't. It's tough to determine what is a legal hit and what isn't a legal hit, and if someone was deliberately trying to hurt someone or not. A certain integrity, though, has to be maintained.

The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that I've met. He's really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his character, to scenes, to scripts.

I like men who are intelligent and sensitive.

I'd say that 'In the Heart of the Sea' is the most challenging movie I've made. It was tough to figure out how to lead this large cast into some very sensitive, intense, emotional scenes.

I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

It was never my intention to hurt people's feelings.