Fernando Flores Quotes

I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.'

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

Being beautiful isn't everything... Sometimes it's interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.

I'm quite an emotional person... I ain't just this Northern brat all the time.

The field of AI has traditionally been focused on computational intelligence, not on social or emotional intelligence. Yet being deficient in emotional intelligence (EQ) can be a great disadvantage in society.

The one thing that robots really find difficult to do is to look someone in the eye and have a sense of how they're feeling. We should be teaching that in schools.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

What I love about 'Big Hero 6', with Baymax himself - this sentient creature who's actually a learning robot - with each experience, this naive and gullible creature becomes more aware of issues.

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.

Your real feelings are inside you.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.

You need to be on your own so that you can meet people as you are, and as they are.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.