Quotes About Visibility

There is a difference between movie actors and TV acting, especially with movie stars, which is they know their face is 20 feet high on the screen. They know they don't have to do much.

I don't think there's been many chances for people to see a black, gay, pop experience and that's what I want to have with my shows moving forward.

I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.

We don't have a lot of narrative on TV or film, mainstream film, of brown queers. Latina queers, I can't think of that many.

Apparently, I was going to have to get used to the idea of being stared at and inspected. People were going to be interested and inquisitive, I decided, and I would just have to accept it as logical, if I was going to function in the world at all.

The ocean there was bitterly cold, with an average visibility of eighteen inches, and a huge elephant seal rookery at the shore. Through the winter thousands of the rotund pinnipeds lay strewn across Pine Cove beaches like great barking turds, and although not dangerous in themselves, they were the dietary mainstay of the great white shark, which had evolved over 120 million years into the perfect excuse for never entering water over one's ankles.

Everyone was poor, but it was out in the open, not tucked out of sight below bridges.

1. Senior leaders need to be in the market 80% of the week, either figuratively or literally. 2. This routine must start on day one and continue through half a trillion in revenue!

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

You want me to touch you right here, in full daylight

If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light

In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another.

It was no small thing to shed a lifetime of nonbeing and suddenly be seen .

Oh my God, can you see me? I thought I was wearing my invisibility cloak.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.

I think you're the first person I've ever known . . . I might not say it right. We'll see . . . who really sees me. And I mean the whole thing of me, not just the part that fits with how they want to see me. And it seems weird to me, because the first person I met who really sees me for all of who I am . . . you know . . . can't see.

What can you do with a world where people do not even see?

But then there's the other kind. They're not used to being seen. They want it but they don't want it. It's like bright sunlight. You live in the dark all your life, you want nothing more than to step out into that warm sun. But then it hurts your eyes because it's too bright. It burns you.

A thing too familiar becomes invisible.

But it feels so good to be held, it feels so good to be spoken to like she is capable and wise, to hear her life gain weight, fed by Cascavel. Fed by being seen.

Those who praise the illusion of assimilation should be reminded that… "The privilege of assimilation is that you are left alone. But assimilation should not be mistaken for power, because once you have acquired power, you are exposed and your model minority qualifications that helped you in the past, can be used against you, since you are no longer invisible.

It makes no sense to expect or claim to 'make the invisible visible', or the unknown known, or the unthinkable thinkable. We can draw conclusions about the invisible; we can postulate its existence with relative certainty. But all we can represent is an analogy, which stands for the invisible but is not it.

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen