Quotes About Understanding

When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.

You perform for a different audience each night. People who don't understand just think that you go out there every night and do the same thing, but you don't - you have to find out who they are and give it to them.

I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it helps me as a director because I know what I like as an actor, and I try to get that to the actors who I'm working with.

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

I understand marketing. I understand licensing. I understand the business side of our business. That comes from paying attention and wanting to do better, not just as an in-ring performer but as someone who loves the industry.

When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.

Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

If you've got love for me, then I'm gonna have love for you, period.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

I don't have problems with nobody, period.

I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.

Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.

Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

I had an arranged marriage, and learnt you have to persevere and remember we are all human and all have faults. Obviously my husband Abdal has more faults than I do!

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

It just clicks when you meet the right person.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

Never judge a person if you don't know him.