Quotes About Perspective

Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.

He who awaits much can expect little.

I think the only way I could make something fun and big is if I don't expect it to be.

My worst expectations never happened.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

I had no expectations of white people at all.

I really don't go much by expectations.

I never expected to live this long.

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

When people say, 'Stay in your lane; you're a musician, so you should only talk about music,' what do you think songs are written about? I connect with music because what somebody has said has resonated with me in one way or another.

Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to get a chance to learn, so you'll never really know what was written, only the approximation.

We can only see as much and we can only go as far as our languages take us.

When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.

I think the ability to emphasize is, in large part, what makes me a man and not a boy.

'Wayward Pines' has largely been, in my experience, a show left to the actors.

My children are largely unimpressed with what I do for a living. I wouldn't have it any other way.

It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

I don't see that we're any different than many, many people that are out there. And it's hard to kind of accept something like we're larger than life, super-people or something like that.

American films look at films with a larger than life attitude while the French films look at life as it is.

The influence of culture and arts is much larger than the influence of economy sometimes.

Acting is important to me, but so is the rest of my life, and what I still keep in mind is that the pressure of being successful lasts so short a time.

When you're young, you don't care about your parents and what they're doing. But then you get to your 20s, and you start watching their movies. And then you become an actor, as I did late in college, and then you're really watching them. And they were really very good.

Being African didn't mean anything to me until later in my life.

My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.