Quotes About Perspective

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

I never played a part in the feminist movement - it touches me, but I am not a militant.

I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

I don't wish I started later, but I was never a child star. I was in school every year and had normal friends and I loved it and here I am, so I can't say that I wish I hadn't done it. I used to say, 'No, I didn't miss any of my childhood,' but it is a very adult place to be, a movie set. Like, it's a little weird.

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

I never said I wanted to be a movie star.

If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle.

I'm not a millionaire, a billionaire, a CEO, or a movie star.

When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics.

I should have realized that what's good for movie stars doesn't work for a Cabinet secretary's wife.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

I don't like message movies either.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.

I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.