Quotes About Understanding

It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.

I have a son, and my son has autism. There's certain things that I deal with that a lot of people don't deal with.

Some people don't have a sense of humor about certain things, and other people do.

Obviously I've been friends with loads of white people and there's certain things that happen and even though they're constantly around black people, they still don't understand. So maybe they can also educate themselves as well.

I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.

I was a gay kid who didn't know I was a gay kid, which was really challenging because you think there is something wrong with you until you understand what it is.

When you fall in love with a younger woman, you've got to realise that the chances are they are going to want a family.

In my work, I'm always trying not to put barriers up between the 'good poor' and the 'bad poor.' I'm not sure my work will change things much, but at the very least, you want to make people feel that they are not alone.

The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

Anything you want to know, you ask the characters.

As an actor, you always want to root for your characters.

I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

You can't say Charles doesn't know what he's talking about.

The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.

I was always a player who asked questions, and it wasn't to be cheeky or rude, but I always wanted to know what the manager wanted.

People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible.

It's really cheesy, but basically, 'Roots' got me to find out my own roots.

I know it's a cheesy thing to say, but I just want everyone to be able to get along.

In order to build chemistry you've got to really know one another.

You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it.