Quotes About Perspective

But, having said that, believe me, as you get older, the parts dry up. They get less and less.

For a person of my sensibility, you're only left with the Democratic party.

Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for 'love', what we mean is that we want to 'be loved' as we were once loved by a parent.

'24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning.

When I was 23, I didn't have much of an interest in politics. All of my interests were in partying and meeting girls and doing stand-up. That's all I cared about. Now, when you have a kid and stuff, you start watching the news and say, 'They shouldn't take money away from this education department.' You start having much more exact opinions.

Partying isn't as important to me anymore like it was when I was younger.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.

If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times.

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

'A Passage To India' by E. M. Forster - It opened my mind to a world I'd never known before.

The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known.

The lifestyle that I grew up in, it was passed on to me. I didn't know there was another world.

If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.

My mom had a heart attack, and it came out of nowhere - she was 54. My dad had leukemia for about 3 months. He was 80 when he passed. My dad had me later in life, and so he had leukemia and was alive for about 3 months between diagnosis and passing away.

Before passing a judgement on somebody just give it a thought about what he or she went through.

I've always wanted to try things for myself before passing a judgment on them.

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

As a character actor, you have to understand that it's not about you. You have to remember it's about someone else's life. And your character is just passing through.

My father passing really, in many ways, was a gift: It made me look at my own happiness and sense of self and realize that I wasn't happy. I had checked all these boxes and achieved all this stuff that I thought made you happy. And I was miserable.