Quotes About Awareness

I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.

The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose.

There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.

I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming aware of how you are in a cultural landscape that is blatantly homophobic... you turn around and say, 'Why did I grow up in a homophobic place? Why did I grow up in a misogynistic place?'

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.

There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one mess-up on a set to get fired. Not being where you're supposed to be or saying something to the wrong person that you're not supposed to say, and those are like basic things that the actors need to know.

My head been on a swivel before I was rapping. So, do my head not supposed to be on the swivel? If you've been like this your whole life, do it stop because you got money now? Do it stop because everybody and their momma looking at you now?

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

I'm always distressed by the supposedly bright people who don't know what they are.

The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.

I think we are fascinated and scared by evil at the same time. I think it's important not to suppress our fascination but to walk into it with open eyes.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

The racial dynamics over here are fraught. White supremacy is overt. It's the reason I don't want to raise my kids here.

If you suffocate my blackness, you've got to realize that's supremacy.

When I'm around people having conversations about their day, I'm looking at them, like, 'What could they possibly be talking about? How are we not talking about deconstructing white supremacy right now? How are we not trying to save trans people?'

The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades.

I believe the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as a very large swath of the American population, really wants to imagine that race and racial inequality is something we don't have to think about anymore, don't have to worry about anymore.

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

I make sure I'm appreciative and can an encounter the world in a humble way.

Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.

If I feel that somebody is hurting other people, then I'm going to make sure other people know - other people know about them.