People Understanding Quotes

I don't think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors.

Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.

To truly lead one's people, one must also truly know them.

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

I've played an awful lot of people that other people would call villains, but that isn't a very helpful attitude to have if you're about to play them. They are just people, and they may do dreadful things and say dreadful things, but your job as an actor is to know why they do them or say them.

I don't think that people understand enough about each other's cultures any more.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

It makes you observe small details; even if it's just a kid playing with his dad, if you watch them closely, you can use that in your work. It helps you fully understand people better.

A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

I just wanted to tell good stories that helped explain the world to people.