Quotes About Perspective

If I have a bad game I go home and see my daughter and I don't think about the bad game anymore.

I watch '60 Minutes' and 'Dateline' and '20/20.' I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home I want to touch reality.

We tour, we do the distance from friends and family, not really knowing how to connect with people on the same level. I've understood now, as much as we tour, we live day-to-day, so our lives are much different than the people who stay at home and go home every night.

I grew up with go-go music. We wasn't really hip-hop fans.

I've always believed that a goal in life is not to own a boat but have a friend with a boat.

My biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride.

I have become a fatalist in life, so I don't try to set goals.

I never say I want to score 15 or 20 goals.

You should never worry too much about achieving your goals, because in the long run you might not find yourself too happy when you get there.

You can't blame another person for your world being different - or things like divorce. It gets right on my goat when people don't take responsibility.

When we watch 'Scarface' or 'The Godfather', we look at the characters for what they are and the story through them.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

The gods, if they exist, are just the people who happen to live on the other side.

Everybody has a different definition of God. When people say, 'Do you believe?' I think they mean the Christian God. There are a lot of gods, so I think they cancel each other out.

The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again.

A lot of times, people will say, 'You're running away from your problems.' So what? Why do you have to sit there and confront every single issue? Sometimes going away is the best answer.

Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn't made a film in London for a long time. I hadn't found the right subject. I liked going away, to some far flung place.

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.

Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.

My gold, my money couldn't stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can't save me, then I don't need them.

I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper.

I don't know what the point of life is, but I'm certain that five gold medals is not it.

I'd rather have one gold medal and 10 caps than 200 caps and no gold.