Quotes About Perspective

'Downton Abbey' has become this huge thing, and I really enjoy the success of it, but I sometimes find myself on the outside looking in, which is sort of a healthy way to look at it so you don't get too caught up in it.

One of the things you get caught up as a coach is thinking short-term.

There are so many things that we have to be grateful for. It gets so easy to get caught up with one thing that, you know, isn't perfect or not going the way you thought it would, but we always need to be grateful for what we have.

The way everyone in London is right up against each other makes it very real to you growing up, the fact that people have different lives to you. And that causes problems; of course it does.

I'm an African-American man. I've got to live with that. I've got to be cautious everywhere I go.

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

What we share with another ceases to be our own.

I've never been one to celebrate anniversaries.

I don't think you should celebrate age.

I don't know if money is something to really celebrate.

The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'

It's so weird to say, 'What am I going to do during Mother's Day?' because usually I'm celebrating my mom or sister who has kids. It's just weird to say I am a mom.

I never really looked up to celebrities when I was young.

I have spoofed celebrities before, but it's hard for me because I picture them watching it.

I guess I did get a good perspective on how ridiculous it is that people think celebrities are important just by the nature of them being known by people.

It's funny how you call me a celebrity. Oh man.

I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really see myself there. There's a sense of being outside yourself, and I think celebrity allows us that too, to be outside ourselves.

Being a celebrity doesn't have an iota of value when you're looking death in the eye.

America is not the center of the universe.

We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.

I would put myself towards left of center.

Personally, I'm right of center.

You have to find ways to find that center, to find that balance, to find sanity, because again, we are getting bigger, and people look at us that way. We have to find that new balance.

America has been central to my life.