Kim Basinger Quotes

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.

People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something. Have you given something to somebody? That's why people enjoy giving gifts so much. It is a sheer delight. When you give something to somebody - maybe valueless, may not be of much value - but just the way, just the gesture that you give, satisfies tremendously. Just think of a person whose whole life is a gift! whose every moment is a sharing - he lives in heaven. There is no other heaven than that.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

My grandmother had a great saying. It always stuck with me: 'People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.' They've got to see it and feel it. And it's for real. And that's all. Be who you are.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or resources. It's about people and lives and hearts. That's my biggest passion in life.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

People who achieve the highest levels of success - whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life - are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves.

As in all areas, we can improve how good we are at loving another person.

Trying to learn to be a good man is like learning to play tennis against a wall. You are only a good man - a competent, capable, interesting and lovable man - when you're doing it for, or with, other people.

I would say, as I'm into my 30s, I have become a better friend because I don't need as much from my friends, and so when you don't need as much, you can be better at giving.

Generosity is as much showing your vulnerability as it is your passion for something.

The biggest and the most important thing my mother told me is to be a good actor you first need to be a really good human being and an honest person.

I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.

People who are obsessed with God are known as givers, not takers. Obsessed people genuinely think that others matter as much as they do, and they are particularly aware of those who are poor around the world (James 2:14-26).

It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others

The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.