Quotes About Connection

My dad was a builder, so I didn't have any connection to the arts at all. I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

To see my brother, see my friends, I think it builds character for me, just being accountable for myself.

'100 Bullets' is a novel on its own. 'Brother Lono,' other than the main character, has nothing to do with '100 Bullets.'

I've had the same best friends since I was five years old; they're still my best friends. I was never bullied. I was never made fun of.

I'm on all the apps: Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, Scruff. I have no shame about that.

That's what a family is: a whole bunch of people coming together.

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don't have to sit together anymore. It's so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don't realize that that is killing us.

I watched my great-grandmother be buried on FaceTime.

All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.

At home around my husband, I totally forget I'm burnt and how I look.

I'm a huge Lionel Richie fan, and sometimes we actually listen to Lionel Richie on the bus.

I'm a big 'Call of Duty' fan, and I used to play a lot online while I was in the bus, but I hate to be the guy who is lagging everybody out.

I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's.

My kids need to be around me. And the times that I'm out of town, if I'm not too busy, they can come to me.

I wanted to do the kind of show that I would want to watch as a busy wife, mother, and midde-aged woman.

Stand in a way that you are always empowering people to join in, because the only way to be truly successful is not to succeed as an individual, but to succeed as a part of a community, of a country.

When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.'

I have tried to bring the family together. My father should have done it, and to some extent, I have succeeded.

I never made this film with the motive of making money. I wanted to make a different film, which would strike a chord with the audience. I'm extremely happy that 'Mithunam' succeeded in what it wanted to achieve.

When I am talking to someone, I can constantly see whether I am failing or succeeding. I am regulating what I am saying in terms of how I think I'm doing. I'm always searching for the truth of a subject or person, and I look at every meeting as a grand experiment.

Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll succeeds, and that's what virtuosity is all about.

My success, literally, is your success figuratively.

Success is best when it's shared.