Liv Ullmann Quotes

In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

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

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

I'm human; that's what people don't realize.

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

I'm still human - I can't not feel.

I would say I'm basically interested in human beings, and I don't really care whether they're men or women. I think my comprehension is about the same for both.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.

We're all human. It's the most important, neglected fact in business.

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

I am sorry that as leader of the community, San Antonio and my name go together. But I guess human beings just aren't made of plastic and wiring and metal. They are made of flesh and blood and feelings.

Let no more gods or exploiters be served. Let us learn rather to love one another.

What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

For me, when we're all human beings, it's just interesting that we cannot understand the other person or how they think. That's one part of the human aspect that fascinates me.

I'm trying to use myself and my own flawedness as a metaphor for general human experience. I'm trying to 'stand next to' a subject, whether it's Bobby Knight or Vince Carter, and use that subject to meditate on both him and me.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

Everyone is allowed to be vulnerable. I think women and men and dogs and cats and ants and aliens can all express themselves and be vulnerable.

I am a human being, with feelings and emotions and scars and flaws, just like anyone else.

I'm not okay, you're not okay, and that's okay.