Quotes About Perspective

The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.

My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.'

Before becoming a father, I wanted to be No.1, but now I feel that there is no such thing. I just want to do my job and entertain as long as I can, because that's the best way to win people over.

If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.

The best way for people to understand each other's faith is to share experiences.

The best way to watch a film is to not know anything about the person who made it.

We're constantly trying to find the best way to tell the stories that we want.

Having a child with someone, you're always going to be respectful of that. But the song 'I Bet' was honestly inspired by my life experiences - I can't just say it's from one experience.

I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.

I feel better now at 38 then I did when I was 17. But then, when I was 17 I did have the attitude of a 40 year-old.

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.

I couldn't tell you what was my last performance before I was incarcerated. I couldn't tell you what last meal I had, or anything of those things because I didn't think about it; it wasn't important to me. I think about it now. I can tell you everything I ate for the past week. I think that alone makes me a better person.

It's like when your parents tell you what to do, but it's not until you go through it yourself that you see why they said what they said. Sometimes you just have to go through things in life to become a better person.

So I felt like I had to become a better person, a better man when it comes to my life and everything I have done and will do. I had to figure that part out myself. When it came to the way I was thinking, it was all about, 'Oh, make this play, get these stats, get these accolades.' I felt like that's what was important, and that's never true.

All the stuff I learned off the track about what's going on in the world made me a bigger and better person.

If everyone could see everyone else the way their mom saw them, it would be a much better place for all of us.

I had my crisis at 30. I was actually really comfortable with 40. Life was in a better place.

I don't take myself too seriously, or I at least try not to, and I want to encourage other people to live that way because it's a much better way to go about your life.

I say to myself: 'Come on, Betty, you can't have everything in life. You've been very lucky.'

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

I have a big bias to the people who understand global aspects.

I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously.

'The Economist' is a biased organization.