Quotes About Understanding

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.

I just think there's a real art in listening. I need to listen.

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

People don't know how deep, loving, and caring 'Pac was. He was more than a rapper or an actor: he was a real friend.

With real friends I trust, I speak my mind right at the moment, feelings are exchanged and we move on.

Even in real life, sometimes you find that person you click with that you get irritated by every other person in the world but you can be around this person every day and you'd be fine with it.

People always ask me, 'I don't know how you could watch that, how that affects you,' and I just tell them, 'I went through it in real life, so it's like pilots watching a 'Top Gun' movie or cyclists watching a bicycle movie,' something like that.

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.

I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

Real love is more than a one-time, seemingly iron-clad pledge that we will never be apart. If you're over 20, you've probably figured out that meaningful love isn't constricting; it doesn't chain you to one place or to each other.

Real love is figuring out how someone wants to be loved and loving them in that way.

I've always had an amazing connection with women - a real love of them.

I've played real people before, but I never knew them.

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.

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.

What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was.

A lot of people judge others too quickly without actually knowing the full facts or the actual real person.

Your character is always right. No real person thinks they're being stupid or misguided or bigoted or evil or just plain wrong - so your characters can't, either.

I'm desperate to be in the same room as Katie Hopkins. There are a few things I'd like to say to her, really calmly. I'd just like to put forward a case for her to integrate the 'her' that she pretends to be on TV with the 'her' she is as a real person.

And I think when you're playing someone who is a real person, it's extremely important to take the time and put in the effort to learn about who they are to be able to respectfully portray that.

You can be empathetic to a character in a book in a way that you can't with a real person, which is weird, because you know everything there is to know about them.

If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.

I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.