C. S. Lewis Quotes

The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.

I find inspiration in each and every person that I cross paths with. Every human being I interact with offers me a significant insight on some aspect of life.

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

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

There is always someone in the world who is better or worse off than yourself, and I've never seen that - in either direction - as a barrier to becoming friends with somebody.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.

I've gotten to meet so many people who've inspired me as a human being.

Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.

Everybody that I meet inspires me. You can learn so much from any person that you meet any day on the side of the street.

Conflict is easy because we've all had conflict, but to really bond with someone and to have a genuine connection, it needs to come from a place by knowing them.

So many of the people who I played opposite, or just worked with, became friends forever.

As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around them.

I feel we have the opportunity of being part of a new and emerging category for human co-experience.

This may be a bit of a broad statement, but I don't think there's anyone that I've met that I haven't created a bit of a deep relationship with. It's a really lovely thing to create a relation with people that might not anticipate that closeness. And that's kind of the light of my life, getting to be close to people.

I'm always looking for instances of people doing things for and with each other for pleasure, for passion, for camaraderie, from kindness. It's the anthropology of people figuring how to punctuate life with the lyrical.

I think that's part of the beautiful game. It's kind of this special relationship that happens in football, where you get kind of influenced by the people around you and the different cultures around you and it allows you to grow and develop.

My agenda... is to learn about people.

If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.