Quotes About Perspective

No offense to anybody from Pittsburgh, but Pittsburgh wasn't for me.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.

I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives.

I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help outsiders - like myself - to better comprehend this pivotal part of the world, up-close and personal.

A small pepperoni pizza on a tortilla is healthier than salmon teriyaki with rice and carrots.

I don't see myself as the next Carmen Dell'Orefice. I'd rather be fat and happy, sitting on a beach in Hawaii eating pizza.

You'd think that being that guy who always has pizza to give away would make you really popular with the neighbors, but I've had people turn down free pizza after I'd offered it to them too many times.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in - the crises in which you've placed them.

It's funny, I often think about how, if we were all placed in an apocalyptic situation, you'd realize quickly how stupid, petty things just don't matter anymore. Who you love is who you love, and it doesn't matter.

'Oppam' is more of a director's movie, especially because I play a visually-challenged hero in it. The character doesn't have a perspective, and so cameras aren't placed like how they are usually done in other movies. The angles and the way the scenes are captured are different.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.

We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.

Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

Sometimes the best ideas will come in the least inspiring places.