Quotes About Judgment

I've noticed that a lot of people who criticize me are from the U.K. - both in the press and on social media. Since I've been here, I've gotten a lot of stares on the street, but in the States, people always come up to me and say, 'I love your hair' or 'I love your dress, you're so cute.' Here, people just look at me like I'm a crazy person.

I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.

There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that.

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist.

Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.

Audiences are brutally honest nowadays. If they don't like an actor, they have all the right to write him off.

Number one - and I want you to emblaze this on your brain - you only have one chance to make a first impression.

When we meet, I'm interested and I'm curious about what he's doing because he's burning a number from a client. And I'm like, 'Who is this?' and my girlfriend's like, 'That's a drug dealer. Stay away from him.'

I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

I think I was told numerous times in the industry that nobody wants to watch a guy on a keyboard.

We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

I'm kind of kooky, but do I look like a religious nut?

People think I'm nuts.

I think Elaine would go out with anyone if they showed interest in her. She's nuts. The woman's nuts.

It is one of the most ignorant things you can do to a person, to say they're nuts or they're crazy. It diminishes the layers of who they are as a person.

I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.

There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.

I'm really bad at knowing if something I've done is any good. I can't work it out; I can't be objective about anything I do.

I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can remember.