Quotes About Understanding

I cannot just blindly love someone.

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.

I did hidden-camera shows. I've been around the block a few times.

Once you start understanding that your mind can be scheduled into having little thoughts or little blocks of time that you didn't choose, wouldn't we want to use that understanding and protect against the way that that happens?

I wish more LPs would blog to help VCs and entrepreneurs understand them better.

The blueprint, for me, was having an understanding of self because this business will try to make you somebody other than yourself or make you change with the times. A lot of times, people will want you to do everything for free, work for free, to be down to do this after you paid your dues.

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.

In many ways, our marriage is anything but traditional. When I started my blog in 2006, Ladd was the only one that really understood what I was doing, probably before I even understood what I was doing. He wasn't tech-savvy, but he just got it and was totally on board with it.

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

We're kind of doing what Bob McAllister did with 'Wonderama,' which is making people realize that kids are people, too.

Look at Bob Dylan: his voice is not a great sound, but it gets the idea across... and that is what's really important.

I love body language.

You don't fight ideas with bombs.

For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.

Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.

My parents say I bond with kids very well, but I am always fighting with them. I don't know how to handle them.

I try to make really close bonds with people.

I don't have a racist bone in my body.

I can tell you that anyone who knows me knows that there is not a racial bone in my body.

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

Read much, but not many books.