Quotes About Perspective

If somebody attacks me with words, I'm always like, 'Do you know me? Do you know me that well? Let's have a beer and talk about it.'

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

When you write scripts, it begins to feel like you're living in them.

I believe that life begins at 50.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

Even I as an individual cannot talk on behalf of the entire industry.

Since Nandita Das comes from a different school of acting, I had to behave in a particular manner. Then with the boys - Rahul Dev, Purab Kohli and Akaash Saigal - it was another ball game.

I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

Coming into London having the experience of Beijing is really good.

When I was in Beijing, London, and also in Rio I was still a kid really, I didn't feel pressure.

I've had moments in my career when I've made more money and had more success than at other times, but I've realized being happy has very little to do with any of that.

I really believe that being positive and being happy is a choice.

People think that being rich is all about having money. But the times I've had the most money is when I've been unhappiest.

I was born in London, and my family is here. America is an interesting place, but it's incredibly different culturally. It doesn't take long being there before I want to get back.

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.

We want to have our beliefs, and we want to enforce them on everyone else, but we don't want to have to think about everything that comes along with it.

The perspective of people who truly believe that abortion is wrong. I understand that, I'm empathetic to that, I get it. But the place where I think we need to come to some kind of an understanding is that... you have your ability to have your own beliefs but the government doesn't play a role in that.

Sitting in America, we never get to know the other side in any kind of believable way. We have so many movies about Iraq, Afghanistan, and this and that, but there is never a character from that side.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

You'll see it when you believe it.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.