Fawzia Koofi Quotes

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.

The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.

Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?

If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.

I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience.

I'm not a pyrotechnical director; I'm not good with all those innovative things. What I am interested in is how actors can touch the heads and hearts of an audience.

We could make the most beautiful film in the world, but if it doesn't have a heart beating underneath it, then no one's going to be interested.

When you're playing music and you're starting to expose yourself for the first time, there's nothing more powerful than being listened to and being actually heard.

Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story.

I want to be a voice people listen to and feel good or sad or whatever.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

Keeping it real is the key and I don't know how they've done that week after week. I think the key is that everybody can sort of empathize with [The Office].

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

In general, my rule is find out where your heart is, then speak from the heart. People know the difference between that and something scripted.

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

I think human beings probably resonate with audiences more than bunnies, but who knows?