Tamlyn Tomita Quotes

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.

Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares.

I love telling people's stories.

I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

I love talking to people and entertaining people.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.

I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.

Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know anybody. Oh, you will know facts and what is in the newspapers and all of history, perhaps, but you will not know one single person. You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with, and cry for people who do not, outside of the story, exist. There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover, I underestimated the degree to which everyone has a story. So my advice, for whatever it's worth, is to trust readers, trust the truth and trust the power of storytelling.

People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.

I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks.

So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?

I believe sharing stories and experiences is the best way to teach people to empathize!

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

I think everybody wants to connect. There is nothing worse than feeling disconnected. And stories that really move people and make people care are the ones where they feel some sort of connection.

I have not forgotten my story I want to tell Millennial women. I'm still waiting for them all to gather out there. I sent out a request for people to call Millennial that they know.

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.

I think that's one of the biggest goals I had in making a movie, was listening to what other people had to say.

The little details really connect for people in ways I never realized before.I think that's why some of the movies have done well, because people are relating to things that I'm willing to expose.

I think I'm realizing I've always been able to move people, just getting people to talk.

I think listening to people is helpful.

For me, I think it's such an important thing to hear other people's stories, because you do find ways that either you can learn something from them, or you can identify with something that they've gone through. You realize that maybe what you're going through in life isn't just specific to you, that somebody else understands it, or you talk to someone and all of sudden you see something in a completely different way because of what they've said to you or shared with you.