Quotes About Perspective

I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.

Some people think they're depressed and they go to the doctor and want pills. And you just think: 'You hate where you live, you've lost your job, your boyfriend has dumped you, could all this be why you're depressed?'

I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting 'Awakening'.

I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.

People will want to say this or that about you, but take it with a pinch of salt.

People are going to write things about you, but you have to take the good with the bad, so you shouldn't take it very seriously. If you take it to heart, it'll get very difficult to deal with. So, just take it with a pinch of salt.

I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

Even at 30 or 40, if something doesn't do well, it still hurts. If I pinch someone, the pain is going to be the same whether the person is young or old.

When people write about someone else, you have to take it with a pinch of salt.

Sometimes I do pinch myself about the life I've had.

We wake up and pinch ourselves most days.

It definitely feels like I'm living a dream, but I try not to pinch myself because I don't want to wake up.

What I've learned is Twitter is only a bubble - take it with a pinch of salt.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

Pink is the navy blue of India.

Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.

I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.

I can have the worst game of my life, come off the pitch, and my mum will tell me I was great! That's what mums do.

Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.

I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.

There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

I would love to go to the Last Supper and become a fly on the wall to hear what was said and see what went on.

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.