Quotes About Perspective

You know what's funny about movies? You can watch one, and then you watch it again at a different stage in your life, and you understand different messages from the same film.

I've only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink.

What is age, anyway? I feel young because I'm beginning a new chapter in my life, which is so exciting!

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.

I watch Jon Stewart because I need to laugh. Otherwise, life gets too serious. Besides that, I don't watch any news.

My life was very Japanese.

We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.

Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.

Nothing ever goes wrong in life.

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

I was the person who did academics until the middle of the day, then went on auditions. I think there was a moment later in my life where I was like, "What am I doing? Why am I so serious?" .

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.

I prefer the school of life.

I'm not sure there's such thing a thing as a normal life.

If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute.

I have to say that some philosophers such as the late Bernard Williams, and I would include myself in this group, would say that tranquillity is overrated as the goal of life.