Quotes About Awareness

I don't want to shield kids from reality.

Yes, I am in touch with Priyanka Chopra but not very often. There was more communication between us before she shifted to the US. However, she knows what is happening in my life and with my work.

As actors and directors, I feel like our job, more so than anything else, is to shine a light on a subject and to let people know that they're not alone.

My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and heard, but that can also add to the conversation about what's going on now.

Nothing really shocks me anymore.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

It takes a lot to shock me.

I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it.

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.

I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.

For most of your career, what you're trying to do is to step into other people's shoes.

At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

I don't think anyone is pro-school shooting.

People do get out of my way when I'm walking to the shops.

Believe me, I go and go, 'cause I know how short life is, and I know how very blessed all of us are to be here and how very short it is.

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's.

I don't want to be that person who's looking squarely at the shortcomings in the process right where I sit and then choose to walk away and do nothing.

I have a lot of shortcomings. I'm aware of that. I work on those things.

I let the game come to me. I just try to read plays. I don't like taking bad shots. I want the best shot for the team.

I don't take bad shots.

People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people read it over your shoulder, it makes you a little self-conscious.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

Keep your head on your shoulders.

Keep your head on your shoulders - even when you think your head is on your shoulders, sometimes it isn't!