Quotes About Observation

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

Acting really started for me because I was in a house full of adults. They never shielded their lives from me. They were adults going through this world doing what they had to do. I used to like to watch them and imitate them. They all have their own distinct personalities; even though they're family, we couldn't be more different people.

My character in 'Cocktail' was different from my personality. Homi Adajania took me to London, showed me how girls dress and behave there. I had not seen that kind of lifestyle before.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

I've been in Nigeria myself personally alone when elections have been going on and it was a bit ropey.

I've always found that I personally love to observe things, and I'm good at observing things.

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

In general, I avoided giving lectures or attaching myself while abroad to a university. To learn what I wanted to know, I went instead to rural communities and onto actual farms. Talk with university people, government officials and U.S. personnel stationed in the country was much less rewarding for me.

When you first come to practice, you learn the guys. You're going to play with them for the next couple seasons. You just need to know what shots they like, how they run, how good a lead they are. You need to know your personnel.

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

I think I approach things with an outsider's perspective.

A lot of people do comedy about India, but they're not from India. It's a Kwik-E-Mart perspective. I want to provide a genuine view and maybe one on how we see the West.

It's amazing when you see something on T.V. for years and then you go and see it in person. It's perspective is all different.

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

We can always connect with all of our characters on a human level, but a lot of them took a lot of observation and exploration and talking with people. And we absolutely embrace our actors' perspectives on all that.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going to the bad. Well, yes, it has, and it is an author's job to point it out.

To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

I have learnt this over time, that Peter Jones, you've gotta watch him.

My mum can't watch 'Car Share' - well she does, but she says, 'Peter I can't enjoy it because you're not watching the road.'

Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.

Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena.