Quotes About Perspective

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

My biggest learning has been understanding that celebrating someone's life is more important than mourning the loss of one.

I never relied on my beauty for anything. It was one of those things that was inevitable; you have a bit of philosophy about it. I didn't go into mourning.

I do see your point, but to me, I'm just a mouse compared to the President of the United States.

I do fear God, but I will also tell you that when a doctor diagnoses you and the word 'cancer' comes out of his mouth, at that point, it changes your life and you do fear less and it also has allowed me to be a lot more open as a person. It's changed me.

If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.

Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There's a huge difference between writing and thinking.

When my doctor told me I had cancer of the mouth, I didn't believe it. I had never even heard of cancer of the mouth, yet I had it.

We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that stuff, and we move forward along on that basis, but there are also massive gaps, and we have to try to address them.

If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

You have to believe that things can be bigger than what you see in front of you in order to move forward.

I can honestly say - not proudly, but honestly - before I had a child, I would see things on TV or hear the news, feel sad for the people and move forward with my day. Now I see everything through a mother's eyes.

That's what the best art does, it starts the conversation. What you may see in a scene or a line isn't what I might see, but that conversation we have, that's how we move forward.

If you disagree, you disagree. But you've got to move on.

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.

I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

I am not very moved by historical apologies.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

I never felt the need for feminism. I never felt competition with men, which I really believed started the movement.

The hippy movement was a failure.