Quotes About Understanding

Using the bathroom in space is hard, and you've got to be very - what was the word? - very kind to one another.

Let your wife win all the battles, and you'll win the war.

You never know what battles people fight.

I've always wanted to be a man for a day.

You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.

Obviously international football is going to be different, I understand that.

The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something else... The emotional life is all the same.

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

My mom was a little weepy. My dad was very logical about it. Once they realized you can't change, they wanted to know that you can be happy and be gay. Once they realized that, they were very cool about it.

We've got to be kind.

It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind.

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.

Be kind to the living.

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

It would be nice if all people who saw movies had some sort of basic understanding of what they're looking at, but I don't think you can assume that.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

It's good to have people in your life around whom you can be yourself.

I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

I am a very sensitive person, I cannot bear to be rude to others.

When you name a beast, sometimes it makes it less bestial.

You cannot hate the hate out of a person. You cannot beat the hate out of a person. But you can love it out of a person.

You're not going to beat the meanness out of a mean dog. You start beating a mean dog, it's gonna become more mean. You start beating racists, they're gonna become more racist.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.