Quotes About Understanding

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

For most of your career, what you're trying to do is to step into other people's shoes.

When you like what you like, it makes it easy for your husband to shop for you!

I don't shop as much as I find.

I think personally that every actress should do a little film. Even a short film. And all directors should act, to know how difficult it is also the other way around.

I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.

People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.

Why should your background be held against you? It is so short-sighted.

Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.

Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together.

You can tell a lot in shorthand.

I don't really know what to say about Izzy. It's like you could have a conversation and think it's one way, and the next day, it's another way. And I'm not trying to take any shots at Izzy. It's just his thing is kind of his thing, whatever that is.

Sometimes I could do with a shoulder to cry on, someone to come home and talk to.

I walk down the street; the garbagemen will shout at me, and we'll talk. That's a pleasure when people feel, 'If he can do it, I can, too.'

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

Management is not about shouting and bawling, because some guys will not like that. They take it personally.

And sometimes you can make your point better with comedy than you can through shouting about it.

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

We have to show people we are willing to adapt to their world.

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a much better understanding.

I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I'm listening to but to the world.