Prince Quotes

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

I take pride in creating genuine relationships with people that genuinely care about you.

I really just want an audience that is willing to let me live my life and share with them what I get out of my life.

You can generate a phenomenal relationship with an audience. It's very gratifying, a real privilege.

Styles tend to not only separate men - because they have their own doctrines and then the doctrine became the gospel truth that you cannot change. But if you do not have a style, if you just say: Well, here I am as a human being, how can I express myself totally and completely? Now, that way you won't create a style, because style is a crystallization . That way, it's a process of continuing growth.

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.

There is a sort of backlash of people who feel like you're not representing them accurately, and you want to say as elegantly as you can, "I wasn't trying to represent you I, was just doing what I could do to make being alive easier for me." And if it helped anyone or made them feel comforted in the process then it's the greatest thing you can ask for.

I’m not trying to satisfy anybody but myself and the role that I’m playing.

We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.

If you don't try things and take risks, you don't really grow and figure out what you want.

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that’s where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.

The reason I am so popular is that I give others back what they need to find in themselves. You need me not because I tell you what I want you to do but because I articulate and justify what you want to do.

Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

If I wasted my time trying to be like everybody else when I was 10 and 11, I wouldn't be me today. So if you are gonna be the future rockstars, the future somebody, whatever you wanna be then you're wasting your time trying to be somebody else, because you'll never get to you.

I'm in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn't include malignant tumors.

Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are.

Men are but children of a larger growth.

I know when somebody is trying to get something out of me for clicks. And sometimes I feel like giving it to them. Sometimes I feel like being real and open to them, but at the same time, I know how much I can give you.

As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.