Quotes About Observation

From an actor's point of view, if you are watching something, and you see improv, you know it. Because of your experience, you just bloody know that wasn't written.

The most important thing is to have a point of view and have something to say. That is important if you are filmmaker or artist. That means you have to experience the world.

I'm just like a photographer or a director. Of course I have an opinion, but I don't think my opinion, or what I want to say... is so obvious 'cause that's not my job. My job is just to give a point of view, not more than that.

I've always been interested in why do people behave in certain ways which are crazy from a normal point of view.

I never saw myself as this big socialite, but from an outsider point of view, there was a lot going on.

And then modelling, because it pays you really well and you get to travel, I was forced to get used to the idea of standing in front of a camera and having six or seven people watching me and that actually allowed me to loosen up from an acting point of view.

David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

One of my pleasures is observing people's behavior and pointing out the inconsistencies that we all sort of have at the center of our lives.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

The thing is, if nobody points out what's wrong, then nothing will ever be done about it.

When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points from them, or he conducts himself well, I'll pick up on that.

Everything I've ever done has been because of travel. Right from leaving Australia to where I am today - it's all been about exchanging different points of view. The most important lesson I've learnt is to look and listen to what's happening around you.

That's management. It's a social job as much as anything else, finding out what people are like, seeing through them. There have been good players and not-so-good players who I have moved along because I thought there would be a clash of character.

In India, you need to look intense to be classified a good cricketing brain.

I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'

Everyone's life is extraordinary if you look at it closely enough.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

I find the closer you get to people, the harder it is to satirise them.

Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.

I'm so easily inspired - if I like someone in the street's clothing, I always say 'You look amazing.'