Quotes About Perspective

Soon-Yi and I had no interest in knowing about each other. I thought she was a quiet, boring kid, and she thought I was her mom's patsy.

If I died right now I couldn't complain—and neither would a lot of other people.

When it came to beautiful women, he had always seen himself as the plaintiff, a seller wandering ineptly through a buyer's market.

Finally, there's a very different perspective one has when you view something as an innocent person rather than what a guilty man must go through. You relish the close looks and investigations rather than fear them, because you have nothing to hide. You're eager to take the lie detector test rather than ducking it.

I'm not cynical, or am I?" she said. "I think I still have most of my illusions.

You can tell from my movies; while some are entertaining, no idea I ever had is going to start any new religion.

She assured me that it wasn't so much that she didn't like me but thought I was a featherbrain, her mother's lollipop, sleepwalking through an embarrassing hustle obvious as the Turk con.

One could understand Judge Wilk's first impression, an impression he would never rise above despite all evidence to the contrary.

Harriet, co my takiego z?ego zrobili?my? - Nigdy nie spojrzeli?my w twarz rzeczywisto?ci.

We had some fine chats about Jesus, Homer, and the Rig Veda from a strictly automotive point of view.

Roth was a much deeper, more serious man than me in addition to being very funny. Sometimes we'd show up together in some article on Judaism or Jewish humor, but he approached issues from a thoughtful, engaging point of view. I was only interested as far as they gave me good comedy material. He was a thinker, a genuine intellectual.

Is this not the quintessence of hypocrisy when Ronan writes a book critical of NBC for trying to kill his story on Harvey Weinstein? But, I guess whatever works.

I could see life as tragic or comic depending on my blood sugar level but always saw it as meaningless. I felt I was a tragedian locked in the body of a stand-up comic. A mute, inglorious Milton. But only if you meant Milton Berle.

Wurm has learned to live with his wife's peccadillos, but only because he does not know what peccadillos are as she has convinced him they're Mexican food.

It was the real world I was coming in contact with, and though it's real for everyone, it's more real for some than others.

I was obsessed with gangsters, baseball players, jazz musicians, and Bob Hope movies, but young women have been a tiny fraction of the women I dated over the decades. I have used the May-December ploy as a comic and romantic theme a few times, just as I have used psychoanalysis or murder or Jewish jokes, but only as good material for plots and laughs.

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.

Left wing, right wing, chicken wing.

A bird in the hand is worth three in the Bush.

When anything happens to you that seems unfortunate, even if it is hurtful or takes something precious from you, see it as a beneficial occurrence.

Toda la gente que se propone enderezar al mundo lo que en realidad quiere es enchuecarlo a su medida. No hay nada más torcido que un enderezador.

Nunca creí que fueran necesarias tantas risotadas para sobrevivir a la tristeza. No es que esté uno contento con ser infeliz, sino que nadie puede serlo a toda hora.

Si fuera campeón [...] ni inventaría historias porque entonces la historia sería yo.

me quede pensando en lo lindo que habría sido todo si yo no fuera yo, ni a ti te diera tanto por ser como tú.