Stephen Frears Quotes

I feel like the more I share, the more relatable I am.

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

The only thing I wanted to do in my music is be human and communicate all the aspects of that, which often means being vulnerable.

I don't always know what I want to hear, but I'm gonna try and pull it out and sing it to you, and if you hear it the way I sing it to you, then a wall is broken.

Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.

I think everyone who shares a piece of themselves and is open and honest - I think that helps us all.

I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.

I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There's a yearning, or something, that comes out of me that people relate to.

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

If you show you're human and have something to say, people will connect with you.

The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

Drama aids self-discovery like nothing else. In removing it from our schools, we remove the inestimable benefits of it from our society. No amount of studying oxbow lakes was ever going to help me emotionally through the death of my father.

The experience of having a child does crack you wide open. I felt like I suddenly had to rebuild the skin that I'd grown over the years before having a child. Perhaps that might be quite interesting in terms of acting.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.