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“Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.”
Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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“But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.”
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“That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.”
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“Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.”
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“It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.”
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“Can a country's people be better than its planes?”
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“I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment.”
Source : "Jesse Tyler Ferguson: The Bemused Exasperation Expert" by Maggie Lange, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2012.
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“More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship….”
Source : Sebastião Salgado (2000). “Migrations: Humanity in Transition”