Quotes About Understanding

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.

It's interesting to take a look at people who deal with prejudice on a daily basis - it's been a real eye opener for me.

Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.

It's hard for men sometimes to talk about feminism, just as it's hard for people who aren't from ethnic minorities to talk about racial prejudice. It's a difficult conversation to have, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have it.

I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.

I don't have prejudices against anybody. I have opinions, based on a lifetime's experience.

If we can tell a good story with characters audiences can care about, I'd like to think that prejudices can fall aside and people can just experience the story and these characters for the human beings that they are.

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

In the past, I've tried to show the human side of people involved in stigmatised or misunderstood lifestyles. I've tried to resist easy judgments and not pander to prejudices.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

In the Premier League you get the feeling they give you a bit longer to sort out problems. They are more understanding and, most importantly, owners of football clubs don't think they know more than managers.

From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are not women. It's the sort of thing to me that's obvious, so I start from that obvious premise.

It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.

I always start with the assumption that everything that happens in the world is actually in the world. It sounds like an obvious thing to say, but it's a very powerful methodological premise.

When people ask a question that is based on a false premise or a question that skips over some details... what we try to do, on our best days, is be informative, explain how a process works.

I channel a lot of my own personal relationships anytime I prep for something.

My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.

My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.

It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.

If I prepare myself for a character, for a role, I always try to understand her.

Every actor prepares a scene in their own way. For me, it's about understanding the scenario, the room I'm going to be working in, the obstacles in and around the frame, etc.

I was not nervous while making 'Nazar' because I was well prepared. I took three months to prepare. When I went on the sets, I knew what I was doing.

I used to hear other boxers talk about levels and it used to frustrate me. But now I understand: sometimes it doesn't matter how much you prepare, there are just people you can't beat.