Quotes About Perspective

I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.

Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.

We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

It doesn't matter! From waist down, my best friend is a donkey.

Maybe—just maybe—Sadie had my best interests at heart. (I just caught her making faces at me, so maybe not.)

We're the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it's only the best thing for us if it's the worst thing for someone else.

My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture.

Frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope.

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.

You're looking for the best way of shooting it, but sometimes the best way of shooting it is changing the script.

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well.

I used to feel like I had to be the best at what I did, but I realized I don't have to be the best. It's so freeing. I've never been this happy.

One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.

We do not actually know other nations

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

I have no idea what my best material is. Different people like different things. I'll say this: The political stuff gets the press, but the relationship jokes sell all the seats.

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.