I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Oh yes. I’m an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

I got started as an actor when I was 12.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

I wouldn’t use the word ‚scared‘ for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!