Quotes About Understanding

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

I am shamed to realize that in my marriage, my daughters never heard their father and me fight, which also meant, perhaps, that we didn't truly communicate.

Both my sons are dyslexic, and so, too, in a much milder form, is one of my daughters.

I am a father to three daughters and I understand what they have to face everyday.

When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he'd look at you. He couldn't speak, but everything else about him was, 'This is us, a family.' Relationships are just as intense as they are for people who can speak. Probably more so.

To all the people that he hurt, I'm not - I can't be an apologist for David Koresh, but I feel for people that have had negative experiences at the hands of David. Let me put it that way. I think about those people, whether I agree with them on every point or not. Everyone has a right to their experience.

When you're laughing aloud at David Sedaris' every sentence, it's easy to miss the more serious side of what he's up to.

I have no animosity toward Al Davis or John Madden.

From day one I knew Farooque Sahab was a great guy.

My family know me. They see who I am and how I've come out of the situation I've been in. And I'm still with them, they know me on a day-to-day basis.

Most people think that it would be hard to be on a set or act for people with autism. But when you think about it, most people with autism use a script in their daily life to communicate in social situations, like at a restaurant, or you know, with a day-to-day conversation.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

I don't know enough about daytime, I think, to say anything.

Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.

To really understand a deaf person's experience, you need someone that is deaf to be able to tell you what their experience is.

Before working with Deaf West, I had never met a deaf person, and now I can't imagine life without ASL.

I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.

In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.

People who are different are constantly dealing with families who don't understand them.

There's no way to know exactly what someone's dealing with, no matter how open you are. You're just never going to know everything.

Whether the theater is 1,000 seats or 500 seats or 200 seats, you have to make sure the person in the back of the theater can hear you and understand you. So there's a lot of articulation and a lot of voice in theater that really just isn't necessary when it comes to dealing with the camera.

I like the idea that I come into a room, and you think you're dealing with one thing, but the truth is I'm very layered.

When you sign a contract, that's your deal. Everyone has different deals anyway.

The dearest things I know are what you are.