Harry Morgan Quotes

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

Become a good all-around human being.

I have become a nicer person after every film I have done.

I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.

I think the biggest thing with me is that I just pride myself on being the best human being I can be.

Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.

Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you.

I try to learn on each project, try to really feel what the characters are feeling.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

There are things I want to do to be a better human being and a better father.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.