It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.
Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.
A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.
You know what, man? I don't have time to worry about what people think. I'm focused on the youth of America. I'm focused on the kids who are dressing like whores. Because that's the message in the media.
You gotta love these Christians, they're humble people.
I've never really been the type of person who worries much about what people think of me.
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
People can cry much easier than they can change.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.