Quotes About Understanding

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

I have this exercise where I force myself to look out from the flower's point of view at these great walloping humans coming down the path, and try, just try and feel it from their point of view because it's a different world to them, a fascinating hard one.

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.

In 'Attachments,' which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would really think that much about whether a woman likes him. But I have a husband and three brothers, and they're all like that.

There's nothing wrong with a male's point of view, obviously, but it's just a different way of telling a story.

Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.

I am good at persuading people. In convincing the other, I try to start from their point of view so it's easier for me to find a common denominator.

It is not necessary to agree with the Arab point of view about their own history, but it is foolish to ignore it.

Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.

Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.

When you're singing about love stories, which is most of my songs, it's good to have a lot of information and to have a different point of view.

Judges have their own point of view, and we have to respect them for that. Rather than feeling bad, we respect our judges and their opinions.

As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view.

Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.

Whatever the case, oftentimes, for a story to feel complete to me, I need more than one point of view.

The last thing an Englishman wants to hear is a man from Brussels trying to imitate his language - you want to hear a different point of view. You may not be able to understand the details, but you can understand the feeling.

I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from her point of view.

I don't write scenes where one person is right and one person is wrong. It's very much by design that everyone has a point of view that you as an audience member can understand.

I think I'm always trying to see the other's point of view, dealing in a very heart-to-heart way.

I like to be close to the players and listen to what they've got to say and feel. Then I make decisions from a coach's point of view, thinking about what's best for the team.

Everyone has their own right to their own point of view and everyone has their own perception of everything and everyone doesn't have to love me, obviously, but I just think that it's too much when people say that they want you to die and it can be so dark and mean.