Quotes About Understanding

Emotions interest me, and I'm fascinated by how a child's mind works.

I was fascinated by the shape of words even before I knew what they meant.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.

However fascinating you may think you are, there is a limit to what you can know about yourself.

Either we learn to live together and embrace the complexity of life, or we will end up with fascism again and destroy ourselves.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

I think looking is the essential act of loving. Brothers, fathers and sons, lovers, whatever. What you do when you love someone is look at that person as that person is.

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

He has nothing to do with me and football really. I don't see any need for us to start talking about football. Some players have relationships with their fathers where they talk football and get into arguments about it. It is something we have never done. It is just a natural thing, he is my dad and not my coach.

I couldn't even fathom the idea of having my own children out in the world and not know them.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

I remember my roommate was watching 'Seven Samurai,' and I just couldn't fathom why anybody would watch it.

Before you have kids you can't even fathom what it really is.

I can't stand people who say they've got 'Africa fatigue.'

I do think that people will claim a certain fatigue about talking about race. But I think that even though they do, it's still necessary - completely necessary.

When people have been hurt over and over, and rather than compassion or understanding you're given lectures about how it's really all your fault and that no one needs to make amends, you can lose your mind.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.

I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

My favorite thing about going to concerts has always been looking around and thinking that there's a lot of people in here that are very much like me, a lot of people in here I could have a full conversation with.

Honestly, one of my favorite things about a director is when they understand what an actor brings to their role.