Quotes About Understanding

That's what the best art does, it starts the conversation. What you may see in a scene or a line isn't what I might see, but that conversation we have, that's how we move forward.

I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'

If I disagree with someone, I let them have their say and move on. I don't want to be the one to lecture.

A person has already made the effort once they open a paper or turn on the news. They want to know what's going on in the world around them. That, in itself, shows they care. But the problem is, most people say, 'That's terrible,' and then move on. Because they find it too difficult to look at.

With the feminist movement - a good movement which I support - there's been more overt criticism of the male, an attitude that men are failing to understand the finer nature of women, failing to appreciate their needs, failing to support them, failing to be compassionate.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

One of the lessons learned in the Middle East is to never try to anticipate the other side's moves.

We moan and groan all the time about a lack of involvement of young people. But they have taught me a lot about what moves them.

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.

I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.

As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece.

I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.

If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning.

It's easy to throw mud at coaches because we don't see - nor often understand - everything they do.

I thought 'Mud' would be such an easy film for people to understand.

I think people are intelligent, empathetic, multi-dimensional.

Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off camera as well.

When one woman found out I had multiple sclerosis, she said to me, 'My heart bleeds for you.' I said to her, 'Well, my heart bleeds for you, because you're an idiot.'

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.

When I was 13, my mum knew that I was gay, and she just always knew.

I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.