Grace Park Quotes

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'

'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are we in relation to them.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

Every good story is about who we are and our struggle to define ourselves.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

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 write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

I'm constantly surprised by human nature and humanity. And I think that's why I love what I do: because I love to story-tell and bring new characters to life.

I really like investigating the things that make us human.

Our dream is to one day uncover the essence of what makes us human.

Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

Research such as ours is driven by the human imperative to understand where we are. It motivates the study of our positions in family, or in society, or on earth. The results may be termed geology, or sociology, or poetry.

This inner strength we have, this desire to evolve and expand and explore, I do love that about humanity. At the same time, it's scary what it does on a global scale. I'm very much caught between the two.