Chiaki Kuriyama Quotes

My mom and I have been through a lot. But when you think about it, whose life is perfect? It is just really good because we did this together.

It's one thing to talk to a vet about something, but when you're talking to a fellow rookie going through the same struggles you are, you kind of understand it - and you grow together like that.

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee are like my brothers. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have gotten through my pregnancy.

I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

A problem shared is attention gained.

One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

People could empathize with other people who had gone through the same experience as they had.

I just hope I reach out to people and connect to people in such a way that they continue to support what I do.

I always longed to have someone who would just be there for me. Of course I have Tom. I'm extremely happy that we're brothers. I wouldn't be able to work as a solo artist.

With things that I'm going through, whether they be on a small scale or a large scale, I'm thinking, 'Who else is going through this? And how can I address it and bring it to light to help someone else?'

Just being with a group of girls and experiencing sadness together - it's a pretty powerful thing.

I think we're always scared, but we have each other to lean on, so we're not being extremely vulnerable in front of the world by ourselves. We have each other.

Empathy is about two people - two people meeting, getting to know each other and tuning in to what the other person is thinking and feeling.

At first, I had such stage fright, and it was always comforting to look over and see my big brother.

We hunger for connection to a larger community.

I had a lot of fear of height, but 'Baahubali' has helped me overcome it.