Julia Leigh Quotes

I have a heart. I want people to see me with their heart and not their eyes.

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.

I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.

Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.

He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.

You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.

I'm inspired by whatever I see, feel, hear about, watch on the TV...anything. It can be something that I really need to get off my chest so I write or something a friend is going through which gets my thoughts going.

We see, we feel, we change.

I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are... The way they themselves look at the world and feel their being

People come up to me and share very personal and intimate things with me, and I am so touched by all the trust they have in me.

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

I have to stop crying when I watch "The View". It's not because of the topics at hand, I just feel sorry for that couch.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?

One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.

It considers not only how we relate to others, but how we relate to our ideas of others so that a completely phony, non-human replica of a dead wife can inspire the same feelings that the wife herself once did. That is a peculiarity of humans: We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars. Our idea of humanity bewitches us, while humanity itself stays safely sealed away into its billions of separate containers, or "people.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time.