Quotes About Perception

Sometimes, people know me from Marvel's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' But that usually only happens in America.

They've said everything about me that they could: racist, Marxist, rightist, homophobic, sex change - I don't know what else they could come up with.

I got interviewed by one writer who started with the line, 'Mary Gauthier is a woman who clearly doesn't care how she looks.' I do too. It's just that I'm not very good at it.

I always have to have mascara; otherwise, I feel like I don't look awake enough. It's like, 'I have eyes now!'

Jeanne d'Arc was frowned upon for her masculine attire.

People thought I wrote in a very 'masculine' way.

I remember distinctly not seeing myself. I didn't see myself in black culture, white culture, mass culture.

As beautiful as cinema is, it's a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.

As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.

Back in the day when I started on the independent scene, guys would not watch women's matches, and if they did, they would do it to make fun of us.

People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

I'm not in Hollywood because I'm good at math.

I get it everywhere, 'Look at the math teacher. Look at the science teacher.' I get it everywhere I go, which I can kind of enjoy.

I thought math, especially when I was younger, is something you either love or hate. I had been blessed to be able to do math and it made me like it.

I really don't think boys are naturally better at math and science than girls.

You don't watch 'A Beautiful Mind' and say, 'This is how every mathematician is.'

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

Women are not allowed to be polymaths; we're only allowed to do single maths.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

My job as a pollster is to understand what really matters.

I don't feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.

When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.

Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.

It's a mature thing to understand that your pictures of a lifetime together with someone were... well, the reality is not what we're taught.