Rosario Dawson Quotes

I like people.

The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

I think people are really desperate for conversations. I'm really fascinated by the idea that at the same time, the internet is sort of expunging our attention spans.

I love coffee, but I don't photograph it. That's not who I am. I'm a social creature, so my subject should not be the coffee. It's about being together with friends.

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.

Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

My ideal world was the early days of Twitter, where everyone was curious about each other and everyone saw it as kind of a window into people's lives where we could be compassionate and curious and empathetic and we could tell each other secrets.

In such a fast-paced world, gathering people around a table to share a meal allows everything to slow down. I would ask people to sit at least once a week around a table and just enjoy each other's company. Give them the time to talk, laugh, and fill their bellies. It seems like a small thing, but it can bring so much joy to so many people.

My friends are always honest with me about films. But I really wanted to talk to regular people and kind of have a forum to interact with them; not just about films, but about everything.

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something.

When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you can read news, you can download music, you can watch movies, you can find information on Google, you can get reference material on Wikipedia, except the thing that is most important to humans, which is other people, was not there.

The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.

How many people ask you to come share their life?

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

That's why I like the scenes where we're just in the kitchen having breakfast, because it's the interaction between people. The chaos.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

I never became a recluse where I got away from people and who they are and how they think. I'm very much in touch with the world.