Quotes About Perspective

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

When you are on the court and a guy shanks a ball off the line, and I think it's the end of the world, then I think about my brother being in a bed for three straight weeks not able to breathe on his own, and it doesn't seem as bad.

I think I'd really like to live in Israel. Even for someone like myself who is not that into religion, you go to Israel, and it's breathtaking in a lot of ways.

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

I always look at the bright side.

When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible.

Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.

Brilliant documentaries are about so much more than their subject.

If I played badly as a kid, my dad would tell me, and my mum would say, 'You were brilliant today'. It's nice to have both: when I need a bit of confidence, I'll see her, and if I need to hear it straight, I'll see my dad.

I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right?

If the end brings me out right, what people said about me won't make any difference, and if the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels saying I was right won't make any difference.

Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important we keep creating.

There are two places that are hard to write about. A place like Britain, England in particular, which has been written about by everybody, and then the place that's never been written about.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

I'm one of those pesky Brits.

I would think Australians would understand 'guy talk' better than most. Definitely better than Brits.

John Madden is arguably the greatest broadcaster of all time, but I don't want to be John Madden.

People don't look at the broader picture a lot of the time.

We need a broader perspective on what counter-radicalisation means.

When you don't have your own team and you're not worried about who you are playing next, you have a much broader view on everything.

I desire to leave this world as I entered it - barefoot and broke.