Quotes About Observation

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

When I came to England, everybody was indoors all the time, and nobody said hello to each other. That was weird.

I grew up in this industry. I've seen fame up close.

I would think, as an artist, it's inescapable that you'll be affected by the world around you.

In my own work, when I start off writing a scene, I don't know which physical details are going to turn out to be meaningful. But, inevitably, certain images will stand out - you start to decide which ones are important as you go.

99 percent of what you see is not what comes in through the eyes. It is what you infer about that room.

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

I am an incorrigible eavesdropper, so I am very much influenced by what I hear.

I am really influenced by normal, simple, everyday life and people, like the Biji and Dolly in 'Vicky Donor,' who used to drink and say whatever they felt like. These characters were so lively. I have seen these people around me.

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

I did have a lot of years watching and appreciating dance and theater and all of those kind of things, and it has informed the way that I work with actors and the way I approach things.

Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.

I love clothes and going to supermarkets. I spend hours walking around the aisles looking at ingredients.

I don't know if I ever realized, initially, that I didn't tic when I was so focused on my acting. I think it was after I had already done it a few years, when I went, 'Hey, interesting that this happens.'

Like Ekalaiva, I learnt a lot watching my father from afar. Though I did imitate him initially, I soon changed tack. When people have already watched and enjoyed M. R. Radha on screen, why would they need another?

I've spent most of my life watching fast bowlers - initially as a kid on TV and later in the flesh when I started playing top-level cricket.

I definitely learned about the inner workings of campaigns enough to know that I'm glad that I'm not in politics.

I don't want to be 'the magician'; I want to be an innocent bystander along with the magical moment.

Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.

My advice for any entrepreneur or innovator is to get into the food industry in some form so you have a front-row seat to what's going on.

People know what they see but they don't know what's happening inside. If you want to know who you are and how you feel about yourself, take a look at your environment.

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.