Quotes About Perception

The sad truth is, there's more Walter White in me than I'd care to admit, because if I truly was as kind as people think I am, I wouldn't be able to write Walter White.

If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.

Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.

We'd like to believe that Americans live longer than most other people in the world. Sadly, that is not the case.

When you grow up around sadness, it affects the way you see the world.

For me it's hard, especially being a young African-American woman. My dad doesn't look like what you might call the 'safe' African-American male that America would accept, if you know what I mean.

He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.

When I said, 'I'm only 19, but my mind is old' - at that time, when I said that line, I was 18.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

People know me as Prakash Rai in Karnataka. Let it be so. But I'm known as Prakash Raj to the rest of India and abroad. Every actor worth his salt gets a name after coming to films.

I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

I don't consider being a musician the same thing as being a celebrity.

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children.

Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about? You mean Hollywood movies that have black people in them?' It's gone back to that, and that's not the same thing as a black movie.

If you're making a film, you've got to have one eye to the audience and one eye to what excites you about it, and sometimes it's not the same thing.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.