Quotes About Perspective

I learned that South Africa is a beautiful country with gorgeous people, and I got to see it from a different perspective than most people do.

South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.

Captaining South Africa was definitely not one of my goals.

Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

Historians and journalists always have agendas, but if I want to find out what's going on in South Africa, I read Nadine Gordimer or John Coetzee because they offer novelistic truth.

Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

I try not to get too political. But coming from South Africa, where apartheid was a huge problem, and there was lots of inequality, has shaped me in terms of how I view certain issues.

I look at South Africa and look around Europe and ask: are those places better to be black than the U.K.? I don't think so. It doesn't mean everything is perfect.

When directors like Joe Russo, who understand story from a very global perspective, start working more and more with Chinese filmmakers, you'll start seeing Chinese films that connect with audiences all over Asia, Europe, and South America - maybe even North America.

Everyone always said you have to make it in the States. But I always thought the best way was to make it in South America first.

German football is very different to football in South America.

I think Hungarians should be more positive; many complain, but if they go to some countries, in South America, people are so poor, yet they are happy. It starts with you.

The Middle East and South Asia have a lot less in common with America than 18-year-old kids in Boston have with 18-year-old kids in Arkansas.

Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.

South Carolina is more of a conservative state than a Republican state.

Most Americans, I think, know very little about East Asia or Southeast Asia. American businesspeople who have been here, they are very knowledgeable about this area, but the average American? No.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

What I do is not regional comedy, and it is not based in the southern area.

I'm from Florida, which I consider more southern. You cannot put Florida in the same category as California or New York.

My life changed forever the first time I went to the southern hemisphere.

My show is not all about the cerebral palsy, but it definitely comes from that point of view. I tried to do my show from a Southern belle point of view, but that didn't work quite right.

I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.