Bea Miller Quotes

I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

I think we go through the world feeling alone and singular, and you forget that your one story is probably the same as millions of people's stories. Maybe with different specifics. But a lot of people experience the same things.

I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing.

Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived and breathed and sometimes worried about very different things and sometimes worried about the same things we do.

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

I think people are universal.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms.

The human heart is the same the world over.

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something else... The emotional life is all the same.

We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.

I think we all suffer the same pain, all feel the same happiness, and we all have the same emotions within us.

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.

One of the ongoing themes in my work, I hope, and one of the things I believe in, is a sense of human nature, a sense of shared humanity above the cultural layers we place on ourselves [which don't] mean that much compared to the human experience.

what is most personal is most universal

Most of the time, our deeper, stronger feelings are things we all have in common.

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.

In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.