Quotes About Perspective

He was in Boston and I grew up in Orlando. It's not so much like father-son, it's coach-player.

The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans.

I'm not from New Orleans, never knew anything about New Orleans.

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

I never thought I'd play an orthodox Jewish man.

Imagine a world without art: it's George Orwell's nightmare!

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get the conversation going and frame it the right way and make sure people aren't lost. And then you let the candidates illuminate the issues themselves.

How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life.

I literally don't think about Oscar.

One of my first real parts was 'Crash' - that won the Oscar.

When my friends were listening to hip-hop or R&B, I was in the crib listening to Billy Joel and Michael Bolton, Luther Vandross, and Oscar Peterson.

I've learned to not have expectations. I think the first movie I did, I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm going to win an Oscar!' You can't do that, you're going to let yourself down.

I can tell you that going to the Oscars is not as exciting as people think, at least for me.

You don't do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn't win them. They were given to me. All I did was 2 films. People always say the analogy is Olympic gold medals.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet.

One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own.

It seems strange to the rest of the world, but we Americans can't seem to stop talking about how other countries should be democratic like we are.

Like the way we get to know about the society of Korea, Iran, and other countries through their films, people will get to know about our country. Our films are a mirror of our society.

Mainstream media journalists, especially in the United States and West Europe, prefer to ignore those problems in their own countries which they usually criticize in other countries, including in Russia.

You have to go to other countries to realize Taipei is a place where there is diversity of thought.