Quotes About Understanding

I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.

Young people deserve to be portrayed with depth.

Christopher Gore is a great character, portrayed with wisdom and understanding.

Most important, in portraying gay people... it's just like portraying anybody else.

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

The challenge is always in portraying characters who've led a very different life from your's as you get to work on the character.

Everyone that's ever seen 'Pose' who isn't trans or doesn't have any connection to the LGBTQ community has been given the opportunity to create empathetic relationships to the characters that they would not have otherwise been able to. That's super essential in helping counter homophobia and transphobia.

I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

I feel like I can play in any position and I just want to understand, more and more, different positions.

I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.

I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.

I don't think sometimes people in positions of leadership in the church really engage gay and lesbian people and talk to them and get to know about their lives.

It always helps to play every game at the back with the same players. You get a good understanding of each other and how one of you works, and what positions to take up.

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

I really just think that we've got to have a positive influence on kids in general. And really understanding people are going to look up to me, so why aren't I doing something to be positive about it?

I always try to think of positive things to say about the people I portray, as it's more helpful for me.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Nothing we read can import new or foreign feelings that we don't, in one form or another, already possess.