You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening. — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
“There's no guarantee I'll survive it, but that's sort of the human condition, isn't it? In the end, nobody gets out alive.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
I'm just looking for characters that continue to make me stretch and grow and learn more about the human condition. — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
There is nothing more gorgeous than being in a room with a play or watching someone on a stage delineate the human… — Dael Orlandersmith Copy Share Image
Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
“Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third—his mind’s—on the human condition.…” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the… — Tom Skerritt Copy Share Image
When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum...for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed,… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
“that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
One of the things I admire so much about Atom Egoyan is that again and again he makes movies about the human… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Why does the ego play roles? Because of one unexamined assumption, one fundamental error, one unconscious thought. That thought is: I am… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get… — Garth Davis Copy Share Image
“Art is not life, and life is not art; but the beauty and horror of the human condition exists between the two.” — H.G. Mewis Copy Share Image
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is about using speculative scenarios as a lens to examine the human condition.” — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“A day came when I should have died, and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Paul Slazinger says, incidentally, that the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
