Boman Irani Quotes

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you.

I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're all alike, and it's much nicer being with people who are different.

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.

People want to learn how other people live. It's just human nature.

The essence of Yungblud is connection. That's all I want to do: connect with people.

Humans need to touch each other. We need to look at each other… We are human creatures, meant to be linked… So, yes, it's a gift for me to be able to look at somebody that I know or don't know, that I love or maybe not love, and to be able to connect.

But I think 'Love, Actually' has a very realistic view of human nature in line with the latest scientific evidence. The opening scene, where Hugh Grant's character talks about the arrivals gate at Heathrow, is about friendship and connection, it's about who we really are as a species.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it's love, and I believe that love is the answer.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

I still speak with David Silva. We have a personal relationship, and we talk about personal things, but we've not got into football that much.

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?

I'm really interested in how we understand each other - and whether we can understand each other.

Twitter helped others to see me as a human being. And showed me their humanity, too.

I feel that we Germans are spending less and less time talking to each other. And even less time listening to each other.

There is hunger to have good experiences with people. There will be roles and all of that. But the package of experience has today become important for me. People should be good, established; the filmmaking and acting experience should become heartening.

I hope to meet a lot of people from different walks of life from different parts of the world.

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.

Growing up, I always loved working with people. I love playing with people and having that moment of discovering something different. I believe in the magic of what music is.

I face no problem in communicating with the people of Orissa whom I meet everyday.

The people in Senegal like me, so I am happy.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.