Sonya Hartnett Quotes

I can play really terrible human beings, and I seem to have a quality that people can, if not necessarily forgive me those sins, at least cut me some slack.

Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.

They say I've made mistakes, but they've been mistakes of the heart.

The truth is, we are all human, and we all make mistakes.

We're all humans - people make mistakes.

Everyone is human, and everyone makes mistakes.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.

Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

I just think that we're all humans; we all mess up. It's okay: we should give people room to learn from their mistakes. That's how evolution happens.

You hope that when you're playing someone possibly unsympathetic that you can bring them something redeeming, something people can hang onto.

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

We all make mistakes. Sometimes people slip, but that doesn't mean they're not worthy of the support.

I've had people send messages that said, 'I'm sorry how I treated you in high school.' It was just through kindness. I still think of the world the same way I did growing up. When I got hurt, I decided that this is how people are. But the world is changing, and even those people have changed. And I have. I need to let go, too.

We're all human beings; people make mistakes.

'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.

Everybody makes mistakes, and I am a human being.

I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.

Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.