Quotes About Observation

I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'

The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

I used to go badger-watching as a boy, and it's brilliant fun - they're incredibly active animals, and the cubs are very funny to watch.

Catching a culprit becomes really easy when there are video footages from the crime scene.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

As a documentarian, you think, 'Follow your curiosity.'

I am kind of a curiosity in England.

I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.

I'm curious what the acting world is like; I'm so foreign to it that I'd be curious to see what that's all about.

I think I'm curious by nature because I always want to learn, and I think you can learn from so many things around you on an everyday basis.

Deconstructing your performance is the curse an actor has to live with. That's why I don't watch my films.

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

I'm around my father all of the time, so the things that people see as distracting are things I've seen for years on a daily basis. It's second nature to me.

I pull my material from daily life.

I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.

One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

When rooted, you observe how systems actually affect people.

When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do.

I knew where people were sleeping in the hallways, you know, instead of doing their job. I knew what systems weren't working.

I don't have much knowledge about Indian culture, but I try to keep a tab of what's happening down here.

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.

If you watch a fly on, say, a coffee table, you'll see that they're rubbing their little legs together to groom themselves; they're actually quite clean creatures.

Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.