Quotes About Impression

I wrote 'Kshana Kshanam' with the one and only purpose of impressing Sridevi. 'Kshana Kshanam' was my love letter to her.

I think all actors are professional liars.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

If you don't look good, we don't look good.

I definitely learned to appreciate there is something about looking good. I think it's been sort of lost in the last 50 years, this idea of looking very nice and very put together.

I have a very big, loud personality and sometimes that can be taken wrong with people that I first meet.

I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

I always believe that if you're looking at a magazine and I'm one of 40 ads, I - in effect - get one-fortieth of your attention. But if, when you close that magazine, you're still thinking about my ad, I've got a lot more than one-fortieth of your attention.

Arsenal are the team that have left the biggest mark on me, without a doubt.

My impression," said the King, "was that Howl is an unprincipled, slippery rogue with a glib tongue and a clever mind. Would you agree?

Janet had an odd air of being dressed up, rather than dressed.

endings that are muted, but which echo longer in the memory than louder, more explosive denouements.

What unnerved me more than all the rest were her sunglasses. I could not see her eyes but, as I remembered the inhuman green irises from the poster, her dark lenses seemed to develop the force of a searchlight; I had the impression that from behind them she was looking through my skin and into my very soul. I drew a veil over myself, masked myself in neutrality, hid behind my appearance.

Too bad he wasn't as nice as his truck.

Art could state very little - it's whole business is to evoke responses.

We're not here to capture an image. We're here to maintain one. Every photograph reinforces the aura.

I noticed that he was an Irish setter, rust-colored. He noticed that I was a Welsh sculptor, buff-colored (no, really, what did he notice? how does he think?) I reflected that he was probably a nice dog from a good home (bourgeois dog) but with certain unfortunate habits like jumping on people from high windows (rationalization: he is a member of the television generation and thus -)

How many have left a permanent mark, branding you with a story that you will never forget?

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.

I feel guilty because for a long time I didn't allow myself a television, and I used to drop that fact in conversation to impress people. I thought it made me sound dignified. A couple of years ago, however, I visited a church in the suburbs and there was this blowhard preacher talking about how television rots your brain. He said that when we are watching television our minds are working no harder than when we are sleeping. I thought that sounded heavenly. I bought one that afternoon.

What attracts us doesn't always connect us. I can't tell you how many friends I have who have been taken in by somebody sexy or powerful or charming but soon after find themselves feeling alone in the relationship. It's one thing to impress people, but it's another to love them.