Quotes About Connection

People really respond when given an opportunity to take part in something.

When I read a script I respond to it like an audience member. At the end of the film, if I'm there in the audience's mind, I have done my job.

It's wonderful when you're performing and the audience responds to it.

It's so important to talk to the first responders.

In our show we know, if we're not getting a response, you see it in our face... we either do something to get a laugh, or the audience is in on it with us.

I feel like I have gotten to know Chicago pretty well, and every time I come here I have a really good response.

When I'm writing a story, which takes me a year or more, I can feel my character living with me - they're responding to whatever funny, familial, or social situation I'm in, and I think about their responses constantly.

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

I'm responsive to my public, but I also follow my heart.

Me and Chainz hang out, we talk. I go to Atlanta, I go to Chainz's restaurant. Chainz came to my dinner. Chainz is my guy.

There's a difference between business acquaintances and friends. I consider a friend any time we eat together at the same restaurant, or he's eaten at my house, or I've eaten at his house.

When you start reading a piece together, you get a sense of someone's basic philosophy of music without saying a word. You realize the other person's approach, how they express themselves, the kind of restraint they show, all those things.

I don't have many friends, but I want to retain the ones I have.

I meet a lot of people that grew up with my career and have retired, and I just want to talk to them. I like to get a feeling from them, a feeling of the old times.

As human beings, our lives should be in retrospect with God.

I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

The actual work of reviewing, teaching and learning is human to human.

The questions I want to ask will revolve around humans, connection, relationships, family, and stories - what are the stories we tell ourselves and each other?

I love women. My life revolves around them.