Quotes About Understanding

We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world.

Villas-Boas wasn't a bad man, not at all.

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

Well, people fall in love with the wrong guy all the time, it doesn't make them bad people.

I am attracted to bad people because they are very human.

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.

These days, I think we could all agree that having a just-friend is not a bad thing.

When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.

I'm not going to make fun of something that has badly traumatized someone's life.

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

I don't want to be a 66-year-old man banging on youth, because that's not my agenda.

I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking.

My job is to return abstraction to the people: in a sense, to popularize it without lowering the bar, which is a lot easier said than done.

I was bar mitzvahed at Beth Shalom, and I had trouble. I didn't quite get it all.

You have to have something in your head to understand the Barcelona play. You have to adapt as quickly as possible.

It's pretty cool to watch a film where the character barely says anything but you can see exactly what he's thinking.

I barely speak English.

When you come to the South industry, they know that you don't know the language but it never becomes a barrier.

Language is no longer a barrier for artistes.

Maybe you are homophobic a little bit, but then you see me, and you've always loved me, and you love the way I play, and your kids love me. And then you're like, 'Oh, that's OK. It's fine.' Once it gets a little bit more personal, it helps break down those barriers.

Music is a language that should have no barriers.

I like to have something to base a role on.

Many of the people I know and that you know are very complex human beings, and it's not all about race. Everything isn't a question of race. Everything isn't a question of economics at the very base level.

It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.