Quotes About Perspective

Being a beauty queen was never on my radar.

Musicals weren't on my radar.

I've never excluded myself because of color. It's never been part of the radar, when I look at anything I do. The majority of the roles that I've played have had very little to do with being black. It doesn't matter what color you are.

I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

I would say that I have become more radical as I have gotten older. I started out very radical when I was young, like most people, but I became less actively politically engaged in the middle of my life.

In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'

My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.

The Caribbean world has changed radically since the 1960s, and postcolonial generations have very different mentalities from those that went before.

You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

Ever since the Dixie Chicks, the female perspective on country radio has been love songs. I love love songs, but we do have more to talk about, so it's nice that other perspectives are coming back.

That's the part I kept trying to say on Queen Radio: I don't have to believe you because you're saying it. I'm not saying you're a liar, I learned that long ago too. There's a big difference between you're a liar and I don't believe you.

I don't read the papers; I don't listen to radio.

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.

Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.

I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.

The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

'Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain' is a film seen through my eyes. I play a labourer.

I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.

I'm grateful for rain because, when I was kidnapped, that meant that I had something to drink.

As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.