Quotes About Impression

When you're reaching out to people beyond the scientific community, image does matter.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.

I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and it's kind of a kick.

You kind of know what kind of reaction a Yorgos Lanthimos movie is going to get.

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.

How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow.

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when they meet me. If they're scared, they keep their shuddering to themselves.

You go to Florence and all the paintings you've seen in books are there. To see them in real life, it just blows your mind.

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

I mean, look when you meet me in real life, I'm not the person you see on the Internet, as disappointing as that is.

I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.

People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'

My friends were the class clowns, but I was the one in class doing Michael Jordan or teachers for no reason. I've always been amazing at impersonating real people, too, rather than celebrities.

I used to be under the impression that if a role wasn't difficult, then there was nothing happening. Then a director said to me: 'Ken, you've got to realise, acting can be fun, too.'

I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.

He was an amazing actor and could mimic anybody's voice. My sister Katrine was walking past one day and could hear our dad shouting and thought, 'God, I won't go in that room!' but realised it was Nicol Williamson mimicking my father's voice perfectly.