Quotes About Perspective

I wouldn't defend comedy that I find offensive, but there is a lot of comedy that some people find offensive which I would defend. You can't talk usefully in generalisations.

The cinema should offer new images, create new memories.

Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.

If you only live in the world of the actor, and if you only live in the world of auditions, etc., then you don't really have a whole lot to offer when it comes to playing the humans that you're trying to audition for.

The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

If someone needs help, I can offer advice. I'm not always right and people don't always listen.

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.

As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

I didn't decide to play guitar, but that was the instrument which I was offered. I've always been interested in horn-type instruments, such as a saxophone; but those instruments are very expensive, so my dad bought me a guitar instead. I didn't like the guitar at first, but after noodling on it for several months, I developed a feel for it.

Have you ever been offered a job by a poor person? No one has.

When I was 18, I took it for granted and was eager to move on to the bigger cities like Boston and then New York. But I've been to enough places to have gained a greater appreciation for the beauty and rich culture of all of Rhode Island. I am grateful for all that it offered during my childhood.

'Aiyyaa' was not the first film that I was offered in Hindi... it was the first film that I wanted to do in Hindi.

I have always been a person who wanted to act. I have never dreamed about being a hero. I never think of a part as small or big. If I like a script I am offered, I immerse myself into the world it set in.

I loved the idea of playing this naughty old bag, offering her own explanation. It's my idea of heaven.

My greatest offering is my concept. It isn't my face.

I believe in accepting whatever life offers with a laugh. So if things are dark and terrible, I try to find the funny side to it. Probably that's why I gravitate towards comedy.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.