Michelle Pfeiffer Quotes

As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.

You can learn a lot when you're around people that are completely different than yourself.

I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.

If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Travel is the only way to get empathy for other people's mindsets - to know their struggles and what they're drawn to.

Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.

I enjoy it; my experiences abroad have taught me the importance of an open mind and have given me a willingness to wander off the beaten path - not only to keep life interesting, but also to understand in a meaningful way that things do not look the same from every vantage point.

I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer.

What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

I've seen a lot and experienced so many different cultures, and that's helped me a lot in my career and helped me mature as a person.

I can empathise with different cultural expressions and am open to things that seem strange at first sight.

I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.

I've learned a lot just being around people who grew up so differently from me, which is cool. It teaches you how to be a lot more tolerant. The bigger your world is, the more tolerant and accepting you become, because you have friends from all walks of life. You learn to be a little bit less selfish.

I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.

Growing up in any big city, you get exposed to so many beautiful cultures. I've grown up with a lot of open eyes around me that's influenced my eyes to open.

I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimpse of a Jewish world and the Jews are entitled to a glimpse of the world.

I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

I meet people from different walks of life that I can have relationships with.