Quotes About Perspective

I have always had my mum and wife worry about me and ask about retiring - but it was different hearing it from my son.

Ain't no worst part about retiring! Believe me.

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.

In any walk of life, it's very easy to judge people's actions in retrospect.

Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.

A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

Sometimes, I use humor because I believe in revealing truth in a way that other forms cannot.

Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.

Know not to revere human things too much.

I don't believe in reverse racism. I really don't.

Let's take fashion seriously, but not ourselves so seriously. Or reverse that, maybe don't take fashion so seriously, but take yourself seriously. Actually, don't take yourself seriously, that's for sure. So, yeah, take fashion seriously, just not yourself.

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.

I don't expect anything from reviews. Sometimes I am bemused by them.

It's always good to get good reviews. I read my reviews. There are a lot of writers who don't read their reviews at all. I read them; then I put them away because it's not good to engage with them too much.

Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author.

I have seen some films which were bad or trashy been given four stars. From that day on, I don't believe in reviews.

I'm so used to bad reviews. I really enjoy them when they're very mean!

I want the Times to give tough reviews. That's partially why I read the Times.

Yes, academia is often in the brainwashing business and revisionist history is alive and well.

I don't think I'm as revolutionary as Galileo, but I don't think I'm not as revolutionary as Galileo.

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

The world doesn't revolve around English.