Dennis Haysbert Quotes

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

I think people have a lot of layers. I know I do in particular.

I definitely have a lot of different layers inside of me.

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

I'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.

I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

There are a lot of different sides to me. I don't know if I'm always peaches-and-cream.

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.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.

I'm an emotional guy.