Quotes About Perspective

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.

Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened.

I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.

I have never looked at myself as a star.

I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!

No one knows what they're doing. I remember going into an interview with a big star and I was nervous. Then I realised they were more nervous. I realised I was the one with the power because I was the one asking the questions.

I don't think I am a star; I consider myself like any other girl who is of my age. Others may be working in office and doing different jobs. Similarly I don't think I am doing something different... I am also working.

I've never seen any 'Star Wars' movie.

I had to forget a lot of 'Star Wars' when I was making 'Dune.' It wasn't hard, though.

We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do.

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

I don't think about stardom anymore. I'm way past that phase.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

There are people who fly to the height of stardom in a single day, and then there are people like me. I used to have this ridiculous idea that I absolutely had to be a big, big movie star. Now all I'm after is happiness.

My children and their generation are not aware of the stardom I had enjoyed during my younger days.

I got stardom too easily. I didn't appreciate the breaks. But that's all behind me now.

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great height, nothing to do with my own behavior at all - but the fact is I'm absolutely one of those people in the cafe staring at my phone.

The love I have for my husband is intertwined with his, and we are two individuals looking in the same direction - as opposed to staring in each other's eyes all the time.

I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?

If you have not had direct firsthand experience of loving a category of person - a person of a different race, a profoundly religious person, things that are real stark differences between people - I think it is very hard to dare, or necessarily even want, to write fully from the inside of a person.

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.