Quotes About Understanding

We don't need to completely dumb things down. We need to speak about things in an accessible way. But we have a responsibility to peel the curtains back in governing and government and how things work.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group didn't fully understand me, or I couldn't fully be myself. I just wasn't engaged in a way that was fulfilling me.

It's like, 'Oh, well of course you want gay marriage, you're gay.' I think when heterosexual people are talking to their peers and they're like, 'This is an equal rights thing,' it's a little bit easier.

It's never my goal to throw any of my peers under the bus.

People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world that's pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don't have the same language as you do.

Most people are oriented to words. When the public hears a melody, unless you put words to It, it takes longer to penetrate. It's always been like that, but I don't know why.

I like Penny. She's cool. Yeah, she dates some idiots, but, although, so have I. So yeah, I would be friends with her. We'd have a lot to talk about.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.

People say that if you talk too much about sex, you take away the mystery. I say, if you're somebody who likes to talk, talk all you want - it's not listening. You will never take away the mystery.

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple. Jesus didn't go around condemning people.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I understand why.

At the end of the day, Black Lives Matter and we all know this and I get when people say all lives matter, I understand.

I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.

Sometimes people say that kids with autism aren't capable of love. That's ridiculous. My son loves deeply. He just doesn't communicate well.

I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

I accept what people say. I don't have time to dissect it.

There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

I think as we get older, as we get more mature and more experienced, we do realize it's like, 'blah, blah, blah,' oh there's the information I need, and then 'blah, blah, blah,' right? So we do this triage, I feel like, of what people say to us.