Quotes About Perspective

Well I guess I always look at other people who have maybe more traditional jobs and I think gosh their weeks are so much more stressful and busy than mine.

In an ideal world, we all walk out our door and we all feel the same way about going out to run an errand, going for a jog, whatever the case may be. That shouldn't be a stressful thing.

If you're getting stressed, it's OK, life is stressful.

Id been thinking about directing for a while. I write a lot, so I have a lot of scripts, and I have wanted to try this. I really enjoyed it, apart from directing myself - you kind of need another set of eyes on you, so that part was a little bit stressful.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

I don't think I am a soul singer and definitely don't think that I am a country artist by any stretch.

My birth mom has certainly not lived a life of means in any stretch of the imagination, nor does she want to.

Was I a Jackie Chan-level martial arts master? Absolutely not! Not by any stretch of the imagination. I'm an actor. I'm a performer.

I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants buttoned. One more pregnancy and I'd be doomed to elastic waists for the rest of my life.

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

My kids would say I'm strict, but I don't think I am.

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.

If you take yourself too seriously, something like a bad review could put you off your stride.

So now I'm 'the hot dog guy,' which isn't bad. I take it in stride. It's not like it was my goal in life. I'm having fun with it.

Not everybody is going to understand you. You can't please everybody. That's just human nature. Everybody has their opinion, and that's going to be there. You deal with it. You take it in stride. You take the good with the bad, the bad with the good. That's part of life.

Inspiration can really strike from anywhere.

That's why you get three of them. Say you get one that you don't think is a strike, and they call it on you: that's why you get two more.

The England I write about doesn't strike me as the real one.

When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.

The reality of Katrina didn't really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter and saw areas of the city that I had ridden my bicycle as a youth being fully flooded.

A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they have everything, a loving husband, a successful career, fame and fortune. I wanted to make this point that profound despair can strike anybody.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.