Quotes About Perspective

Nobody wants a bad relationship with their parents, but at the same time we are all dealt a hand in this life and it's all about what you do with that.

I think people were just seriously happy to find a funny woman who does comedy like a man. Because I learned how to do comedy from guys, from watching those Dean Martin roasts years ago.

People who write to 'Dear Abby' don't always have the most earthshaking problems in the world.

One of the greatest things about the theatre is how it can completely change the way you see the world around you. 'Dear Evan Hansen' did this for me.

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.

Keith Thurman No. 1, Errol Spence No. 2 and everything else is debatable.

I think debate is good. Everyone has an opinion, and it's definitely healthy to voice those.

Ideas must always be subjected to debate and challenge.

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.

I believe in reasoned debate.

My wife and I often have debates about who studied in a better school and when I list KVM alumni, she kind of loses the argument.

One one hand, it's important to hear out the other side and try to reason with them using facts. The problem arises when we can't even agree on what the facts are. I've found myself walking away from debates when the person I'm talking to just won't acknowledge long-established facts.

It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

I went to New York for a while before I moved to L.A., and I was very clear that I didn't want to do TV. For a decade, basically, I didn't even entertain the idea.

You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life.

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

I thought I was decent at table tennis, but when I saw Ross Barkley and Raheem Sterling, I thought, 'maybe not'.

We're moving from a centralized understanding of the world to a decentralized understanding of the world.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.