Quotes About Perceptions

Comedy is a terrible way to meet women. It's certainly a way to start talking to them, but they always have preconceptions about you.

So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land.

What people think is their individual nature is just a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, opinions, and prejudices. The world can do without this individuality.

What I find very interesting is, we're not enthralled by the ancient world, and we've escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and assumptions and prejudices. But, nevertheless, we still make that connection between authoritative speech and male speech.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

I think Danish girls might be a little more chill - at least, that's what I've heard from people who've also dated American girls.

Men are easier to get on with than women. They tend not to make emotional demands on you.

I never knew anyone who have growing up who had a clown at their birthday party. They are something I think of as being from the past. So I never had strong feelings about them. I do think that they can be creepy, I guess it depends on the clown.

I think what people think about my films depends on the film they see. It's all different and opinions are all different.

I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.

We say less things about Australians than Australians say about us, calling me a dictator, authoritarian government.

Audiences aren't that different for my show from area to area. Other acts, I think, experiences differences, but not me.

I used to do standup about footballers; they are easy targets because they are traditionally seen as stupid.

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

To voice one's curmudgeonly thoughts - 'I hate tattoos,' 'If that kid says 'like' even one more time, I'm going to fire him,' and such things, instantly labels one as a geezer.

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.

From an emotional standpoint it's very easy to say don't raise taxes, and no one wants to raise taxes.

I didn't fancy any of my teachers.

There is truth in what they say about the sexes. Men like cars; women like clothes. I also like cars because they take me to clothes.

That's the way girls were--they always laughed. Because they were bitches.

Some folks think they are luxuries,' I said, 'but at Ingleside we think they are necessities.

A very ex-boyfriend once described me as a little china doll. He meant it as a compliment. I didn't take it that way. There are reasons I don't date much.