Quotes About Familiarity

People recognize actors that they see regularly, like people they see on the television every week.

Pound Ridge is about five miles from our country house. When you go every weekend for the last ten years without fail, well, that starts to feel like a home.

It's nice to work with the same people. You don't have to be polite. You know each other's likes and dislikes, and you don't have to micromanage and look at what they're doing every moment.

I'm very into familiar things, popular things. I'm into things that no one seems to know about or be into. I'm trying to draw a line between those two things and make it clear... that it all makes sense to me. That it's not disparate. That it's all one thing inside me.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

You're in everyone's homes every week as this character, and they feel like they know you, and then they start to really define you as this character that you portray.

I just try to make my home everywhere I go as much as I possibly can.

My grandchildren just know me now as Mr. Potato Head.

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.

Children love consistency... they love knowing what's going to happen.

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

It's nice to be home - I go to the same old sandwich shop around the corner, I go to the movies, I do what I like to do.

I love to be at Topeka Country Club. It's where I grew up. That's one course I'd play every day.

When I walk into a courtroom, I feel like I'm home.

I have a lot of cousins that I don't know. But I think that happens to any celebrity. I wonder how many cousins does Michael Phelps have?

Most of my cousins are boys, so I'm used to being around boys.

I'm a creature of comfort.

Old Trafford - as a cricket ground, I love playing there. It's a second home for me; I've been going there since I was young. It just feels right there.

I've never had a celebrity crush! I don't believe in those, really. I feel like you have to get to know the person before you start to feel anything like that. People always think they know celebrities, but how can you when you've never met them?

I don't know Ayesha Curry.

I'm around my father all of the time, so the things that people see as distracting are things I've seen for years on a daily basis. It's second nature to me.

Dallas is a good town. I spent a lot of time there as a kid. It always nice to come back.

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.