David Levithan Quotes

I didn't think I was helping other people. But I think that comes hand in hand with trying to be able to connect with people, and if you make things too personal, then it's harder for people to relate to you. Otherwise, it's just them listening to you read your diary.

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

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

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

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

I think each person you play has a little bit of you in it - you can't really help that.

A lot of people are not interested in stories in which they don't see themselves.

I don't like to work with people I don't have any connection with.

I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.

I take time to be with people, and I learn a lot.

For me, when we're all human beings, it's just interesting that we cannot understand the other person or how they think. That's one part of the human aspect that fascinates me.

If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest.

I enjoy learning about other people. I really didn't understand that until 'Moonlight.'

I'm writing my story so that others might see fragments of themselves.

We've got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people.

I remember Julianne Moore talking about acting and she said, "I'm just looking for truth. When people watch, they're not looking to see me. They're looking to see themselves." That's one of my new favorite sayings

That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?

Whatever person kids relate to the most, I want them to call me that. Sp of Hannah's more who they find their inspiration in, call me Hannah. If they're more an average girl who wants to blend in with everybody else, then call me Miley.

People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.