Quotes About Perspective

I looked at my daughter's face and thought, it's lovely to be beautiful but better to be healthy.

Soon, I'm going to meet somebody around my own age, and she's going to be smart and beautiful, and I'm going to date her daughter.

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

I do see the world as being different for girls - especially now, having daughters.

I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day.

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

Why is being a female having an agenda any more than being a misogynist - which David Mamet most certainly is?

To all the people that he hurt, I'm not - I can't be an apologist for David Koresh, but I feel for people that have had negative experiences at the hands of David. Let me put it that way. I think about those people, whether I agree with them on every point or not. Everyone has a right to their experience.

I told my wife once, 'I feel like I'm getting paid to sit at the feet of Aristotle.' Some people are like, 'You're comparing David Milch to Aristotle,' and yeah, I am, but I'm not Plato.

Who is shorter, me or David Silva? I don't know. Probably him.

I see a David West score 47, and yeah, it'd be cool to put up numbers like that. But I don't need that to make me happy.

From day one, I was against Karisma marrying Sunjay.

We all get so caught up in our day-to-day lives and have so many gripes. But when you see the way others live and how they make the best of it, you'll realize how lucky you are.

In reality, civil rights are more important than national rights. They're the content, the day-to-day: work, life. But people are sensitive to national rights.

Luckily, I have a thing inside me that I wake up and I am happy every day. But boys and girls want to live the dream and are looking at everything you do on a day-to-day basis.

To really understand a deaf person's experience, you need someone that is deaf to be able to tell you what their experience is.

Am I complaining about my deafness? No, I am not.

I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

There's no way to know exactly what someone's dealing with, no matter how open you are. You're just never going to know everything.

The difference between one writer and the other, or one director and the other, is the way he deals with a scene.

Only an ideologue deals with the world as he would wish it to be, as opposed to the world as it is.

I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.

It's really, always, the story and the characters that come first, and the other things are kind of dealt with in time or, in fact, driven by the story.