Quotes About Perspective

I'm such a perfectionist. I can be like, 'This has to be like this. And this, and this and this.' But then you realize a lot of things that you thought mattered, they really don't matter.

I don't see myself as a perfectionist.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

I know who Cristiano Ronaldo is and he's a gorgeous looking guy. It would be an obscenity for him even to look at me as anything else but a mother figure while of course it is perfectly OK for me to look at him as a man.

In a way I guess I'd be a bad judge of what it was like because it just seemed perfectly normal to me.

It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on.

Here's the thing: I'm not beautiful. I mean, I'm a perfectly normal-looking Jewish guy. My face has never been my fortune, nor has my body... physical beauty has never been part of my equation. It's just not on my shopping list.

None of the people I grew up with had identity problems. We all had perfectly marvelous lives.

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.

To be perfectly honest, most fans see a different game to players. I am not being rude when I say that.

It's not that I was crazy. It's just that I was sad at times because the world was sad at times. When I would perform, it wasn't sad anymore.

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

I don't think much about how my past films have performed at the box office.

My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations.

As a performer you often feel that you're the child and everyone else is a grown-up.

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.

As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done.

I think I would not be who I am if I did not have experience both as an audience and as a performer in those early days of my career. It taught me what entertainment is all about.

I'm not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing - that's just one facet of my life.