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Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change. ”
I'm very curious, I guess, as a human being. ”
Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation. ”
Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood. ”
I'm doing 'Rock of Ages' one day, making out with Russell Brand. Soon after that, I'm advocating with Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Cynthia Nixon for marriage equality. ”
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. ”
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ”
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' ”
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ”
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. ”