Quotes About Understanding

Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page.

When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl. If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

You can meet somebody at a club. You can meet somebody at a restaurant. But maybe that person is not on the same page. Maybe that person is like, 'I'm starting out, I don't want to get married now.' Or, 'I don't want to have kids.'

Britney and I are on the same page. There are no grudges. We communicate on disciplining the kids, and if they're grounded here, they're grounded there. She's a completely different person - as the kids will tell you!

I need to be on the same page as the director.

Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.

Dybala is three pages ahead of the rest in the football manual.

I think, a lot of times, we find ourselves in a relationship where we are on two different pages.

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

If I'm looking at life without a spiritual perspective, it's a lot more painful, a lot more confusing, and there's so much that I don't understand.

As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you too hard because I can see this is painful for you.'

I think it's always interesting to me how we keep secrets from the ones we love the most. You could be so close to someone, but still there was something you can't express, you can't tell them, because it's almost too painful and too hard for you to articulate yourself, because you don't fully understand it.

Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is a most painful thing.