Quotes About Observation

What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.

If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation.

From the first time that I went over to China, I think I was around the age of 17, 18, and just going there and seeing that their technology being years ahead of ours in America, it sparked something with me back then.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

If you ask me, we actors have this amazing ability to detach ourselves from an emotion and just do it for the camera.

There's vultures out here. You need to listen and learn.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

I do tell people when I'm walking down the street that they should really rethink their whole outfit.

My natural state is an outsider, and no matter what group I'm in or where I am, I've always felt like I'm outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

I don't have to stand back as an outsider to look at society.

I like the idea of being caught between things, always being a bit of an outsider, having an outside eye on things - almost like a Shakespearean fool.

It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

I'm both an insider and an outsider.

As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are willing to take.

Every writer is an outsider.

There's a lot of comedy in being the outsider. You can say, 'That's weird. Why do you do it that way? That's foreign to me. That's pretty weird.'

The crux of drag is outsiders looking in. That's all it is.

In my life, I've been able to really examine society in a way most people who aren't outsiders don't get a chance to do.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.

I point out things on the floor that I see, so we can be successful as a team overall.