Quotes About Perspective

I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny.

It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.

I don't have to be a pretty face. I've done that, but now it's important and liberating to be on the other side of the lens. I don't like to be the center of attention anymore.

If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.

We've been around for awhile, had a lot of success. Got a chance to sit around and go, 'Oh, yeah, we're pretty good.'

I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.

My worst days are still pretty good days. That's something I might lose in the moment sometimes, but I have a pretty good grasp of it.

'Colors' is pretty good. It takes you inside the cop car bit. I like reality myself. I like reality-based kind of movies.

I realize that my worst day is pretty good.

I am 58. That is pretty old, for God's sake. I look pretty good for my age, and I am enjoying that.

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

I didn't do anything. People are thinking that it's something serious; I have not put my hands on anyone, didn't put anyone in danger. Since I didn't do anything like that, I'm not thinking about it. If I didn't do anything, why should I think about it?

When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize.

I wish people would listen rather than rush around in their own world. There's a danger that we are becoming stuck in a bubble and losing the ability to communicate.

It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people.

I love that although the world is a dangerous place, I still find it to be beautiful.

I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.

In stand-up, there's that idea that comedy comes from a dark place, but it's not a rule.

If you ask me, I have not really seen any negative side of this industry. I have not met those kinds of people who can change the way I see this industry and make me feel that it's a bad or a dark place.