Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

In acting class they tell you that you have to be real, connect with the people, connect with your partner. The same as politics, you have to connect to the people.

I really just enjoy listening to talk [to John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling]... not even about acting or anything. It's interesting because I felt really connected to all these people very easily. They're all very open emotionally, like we're in the scene together, so you never feel like anyone's acting.

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

When you're being real, that's endearing to an audience. When you're not being real and you're making jumps to things that don't really follow how they would in reality, people don't appreciate that.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

There is so much crap in the world, both in show and other businesses, that I try to be vulnerable myself, in the hopes that there is some truth I can get to, that makes people feel less alone in the world.

I think people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect.

Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.

If you show you're human and have something to say, people will connect with you.

My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him.

As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.

One thing about America is Americans are real people. So it's like, if they see that you're real, this is real, then they're gonna relate to it.

I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.

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

Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.

That's what I miss, being a real human.

I remember Julianne Moore talking about acting and she said, "I'm just looking for truth. When people watch, they're not looking to see me. They're looking to see themselves." That's one of my new favorite sayings

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].

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

We are aching to come together and I think it has little to do with liberal or conservative discourse. I think it has to do with increasing disconnection with what is real and soul-serving.

We have so much access to one another through technology and everything else, that we're very much used to people being real. When folks go on TV and they're basically acting - if they were good actors they'd be acting and paid for it for a living, but they're not good actors. When we see bad acting, it doesn't look like bad acting, it looks weird, and we are turned off by it. I'm not talking about anybody in particular, that's just politics right now. This generation, I feel like, has incredible bullshit detectors.

I think people enjoy "The Lobster" because people respond to original things, but I think they only respond to original things if they connect to some truths within us.

The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.

I think the best way people can connect to you is by being real