Quotes About Perspective

I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.

The thing is, I actually feel a lot more comfortable at school just bumming around with my friends than I do at Hollywood parties. But then, I guess you're just never happy with what you have.

I have been to a few A-list parties, but not massively. It's not my life, but it's fun dipping into it.

We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.

I am not as partisan as people think I am.

All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.

But I'm not a political partisan. I don't vote.

I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.

I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.'

I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't.

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits.

What you want, what feels good to you - it's all going to change with every partner you have.

I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.

I think it's always good to get into your partner's mindset.

Every partner you get is so different, you learn a lot from each of them.

The writer, Ruth Jhabvala, livedin India but was German. My partner Ismail Merchant was from Bombay but was educated in England and he had a different view on the world. Probably they had to contend with some sort of Oregonian-ness in me that they didn't understand and didn't know where it was coming from.

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had.

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.

There are no small parts; there are only small actors.