Quotes About Perspective

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle. There are certain puzzle pieces that are bigger than others, and all I need to know is if this is going to fit here to make this part of the puzzle work.

When I can see things through the lens of the director, it's like being able to see the whole puzzle - it's not just about my role, but the whole script.

For me, coaching in the NFL doesn't fit. I coach high-school football, so I get my fix.

I don't think I can write a book as nihilistic as some of my early ones. They're so bleak. I don't think I would enjoy that as much anymore. You really become fixated on ways out.

Some in favour of Brexit are so fixated on leaving the E.U., they keep arguing that any attempt to change it is some form of sabotage.

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

I don't aspire to have her career, or to be as talented as her, because I'd feel like I was shooting myself down in flames. If you have a parent who is that successful and set them as a benchmark, then everything is going to be disappointing.

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.

I don't know if I was ever meant to have that flashy lifestyle.

I believe the Earth is flat.

I don't look at fashion shows on the internet because it's too flat.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

Now, I am not saying that the world is flat, but it could be.

Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to move within a relationship. A song can kind of get the girl, for sure.

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

I used to tell my mother, 'Mom, when they write really flattering things about your son, don't believe it all. And when they write really negative things about your son, don't believe it all.'

Sometimes, you can learn more from criticism than you can from flattery.

I think people ragging on me is kind of a form of flattery.

You have to find some way of engaging with the world around you, however it's constituted. The engagement is necessarily going to be flawed. But if you do it on your own terms, you'll be able to extract some pleasure from the world. It might even make you really happy sometimes.

I see flaws as a kind of beauty.

I know how limited and how fleeting fame is, so I just try not to get excited about it, honestly.

I really like watching myself a lot because it gives me an opportunity to see it from outside the flesh, and when I view it like that, I can be a lot more cynical and see the things that need to be attacked.

England was bad for me, I was not flexible in my ideas.