Quotes About Insight

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

When I look back at many of the moments of wonder, awe, or terror that I've got from science fiction, it's often been because I've been put in the head of one of the characters.

I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him 'he can't see you'.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.

It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside.

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

When I would visit my Granny as a little boy, we would play this game of closing our eyes and describing everything around us. The color of a tie. The shade of a cloth. It was really quite a wonderful way to learn how to look, to notice things and to appreciate what is around you.

My mind is just a product of 50 years of being taught. I'm no smarter than anyone else, but I've been taught by some wonderful people.

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

I always thought that's the wonderful thing about filmmaking: people see things differently.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

I'm mostly interested in characters and how they manifest themselves in their relationships. I'm delighted that people relate to the characters in 'Bojack,' and hopefully they will too to the characters in 'Undone.' If they understand themselves or feel seen in a new way, I think that's a wonderful thing.

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.