Laura Donnelly Quotes

I enjoy learning about other people. I really didn't understand that until 'Moonlight.'

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.

If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.

I think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being this restorative force. I write about them because that's what I think about in my own life.

The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.

I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people.

I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

All my work is always that exploration of human nature.

I was always very proud of myself that I could wrest emotion from a doll or a puppet. It never occurred to me that I could find real emotion in a person.

I don't want to just tell my story - I want to share the experiences, life lessons, and values that have shaped who I am and my ideas for the future.

We're constantly, as human beings, trying to understand why we do what we do and how we got to wherever we find ourselves today. Sometimes it takes a lot of time to look back and go, 'I can't believe I spent one day with that person, much less two years.'

I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.