Quotes About Perspective

I think for really good-hearted people, that idea of putting yourself in the shoes of a monster to figure out why they acted that way, that's a really frightening idea.

I remember years ago hearing a top band talking about a song of theirs that was a monster hit and they were really dissing it, saying that they hoped they'd never have to play it again. I thought: 'That's not right. If people love a song, play it.'

New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.

I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough.

I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.

All I'm saying is that, you know, whether we're worth a billion, whether we're worth a million, whether we're worth $1,000, it's what's in your heart. You know, $100 a month from somebody or $50 a year for people who may be in a less economic bracket, that's as important to the Lord.

In one sense, what happens for me outside of cricket gives me that break - the farming means I have a really different life outside of cricket; it's not just cricket, cricket, cricket for 12 months of the year.

You will find this hard to believe, but I've never laughed as much as I did when I was a corporate lawyer. When you're working 16 hours a day for months at a time, you get punchy. Everything and everyone seems hilarious.

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to feel small.

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

When I am going through something monumental or difficult in my life it is hard to look at it as it is because it is too much.

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

When I get in a bad mood about anything, I realize, 'Hey, I'm still working. It could always be a lot worse.'

I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.

I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.

Gradually, I came to know my horses intimately. You go through every mood they experience and come to view the world much like a horse.

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.

It was hard for me to believe. I would look down and say, 'This is the moon, this is the moon,' and I would look up and say, 'That's the Earth, that's the Earth,' in my head. So, it was science fiction to us even as we were doing it.

We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.

I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.