Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

I really create everything I do from the heart.

Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

I'm constantly surprised by human nature and humanity. And I think that's why I love what I do: because I love to story-tell and bring new characters to life.

You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.

I just find social media such a robotic experience, whereas punk was right in your face.

We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that.

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.

God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

I'd say my relation to being a woman is, I mean being a woman is whatever you want because the concept of gender is not really real, you know? And so for me it's about being comfortable in myself. It's about allowing myself to express who I am in any way that I want to, whether that be through my clothing, the way I present myself to the world, whether that be through like my gender identity and my pronouns. It's just really about allowing yourself to really be expressive and creative.

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.