Quotes About Connection

What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.

My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies.

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.

Whatever I have is because of the people who are watching me. I don't have a PR agency, I don't have a manager, and I don't even have a professional portfolio. People who hire me are people who, just like the audience, have just seen me in a small role here or in an ad there.

My grandmother raised me for a good portion of my life. She moved to Los Angeles with me to be an actor, so I've always had a connection with an older generation.

People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives, into their physical houses and sort of live with portions of them. But they're not really deeply engaging with them.

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

I hung out in Northeast Portland, I hung out in Beaverton. I knew a lot of people on every demographic. For me out there, I loved my time out there.

When you move from a different country, it takes a while to make friends. I found myself being lonely a lot at first. In New Delhi, I had all my family. But Portland is one of those cities you can immerse yourself in and feel comfortable. People are so friendly.

Something about Portland just really resonated with me.

Once my family grew bigger I loved Portland more.

I was never one to feed into what the media was saying about us, especially out there in Portland because I was so in-touch with the people everyday.

When I was with Washington, Portland, Detroit, everybody still got love for me and I still got love for them.

Obviously I've loved my time here in Portland.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

As a dancer, when you're moving, you're listening to music so much because you're trying to portray it with your body. You're dissecting a song way more than anyone would actually think you are.

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

In my movies, I portray this 'Everyman' persona, someone everybody can empathize with. People can identify with a guy like me.

Country music listeners really like genuineness, and I hope that's what we portray, and I think that's what we do.

The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.

I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.