Rithy Panh Quotes

Barbara Broccoli was a great friend of my late wife's and continues to be someone who is very gracious with me, my family, and our life.

I always want to give the victim a voice.

I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.

I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.

The whole thing means such a great deal for me, and hopefully one day it will be there. But my friends and my family mean a little more. I would rather be helping them, even if it hurts that.

My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must have the help of others. That power to help lies within each of us.

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

If you make it anywhere in life, you owe that success to the people along the way who stuck up for you, or made sacrifices for you, and gave you a push when you needed it. In my case, those people were my family.

You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.

I still miss my mom every day, but when I see the smiles on the faces of the people that I help I know I am honoring her legacy.

That's what friends do - support each other as best that they can no matter the circumstances.

You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.

Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

The bracelet says 'Fear Nothing.' It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me and my friends during the period of time that I was going through chemotherapy. And I still wear it, because it's a great reminder of friendship and how my buddies and others came together in my time of need.

I am so grateful for all the love and support I've had from people around the world.

You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money-making stint to most people, it's a day of expressing love across the world. It doesn't have to only be between lovers, but by telling a friend that you care, or even an old person that they are still appreciated.

To make the people happy, to forget their problems. Then, to me, I'm doing my job. But to act is a God gift.

He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.