Quotes About Perception

It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.

My first TV experience, it was so bad. I just didn't feel a creative atmosphere. I felt like we were just pawns to deliver lines. Everyone was telling me that's just television. I said, 'OK, I'm going to stay far away from television!

Obviously, I pay for the fact I was an actress once. But it was a job like any other, because I never did anything scandalous.

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.

Pay attention to other people's nightmares because they might be contagious.

We had to cope with the media writing things which were not true, which were insulting. At around 13 I decided I was just not going to pay attention.

I don't pay attention to critics.

I can feel so bad about myself, especially if I start to pay attention to the kinds of stupid comments around the Internet.

People assume I'm fearless. A lot of the things I deal with are pretty scary. Fear makes you pay attention - it's about absolute concentration.

I don't really like to pay attention too much to what is being said about me, only because the people closest to me - my parents, family, and friends - know me best. So I feel like their opinions mean more to me than anyone else's.

I'm not deceived by people, because I don't pay attention to people.

With moviemaking, the audience always has to keep asking, 'What happens next?' If you have the wrong piece of music over a scene, people aren't going to get the scene. If you have the wrong camera angle, people aren't going to pay attention. That's as much a part of the process as getting people to talk to you.

If you are who you are on stage, people pay attention.

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.

When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them.

We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.

People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.

I pay attention to everything now - the taste of bread, the taste of water.

I think the more complex your idea of who someone is or who a particular group is, the less able you are to separate 'we' and 'outside' or 'us and them.' I think that that's something that we really, really need to pay attention to.

I pay attention to the things that nobody else is looking at.

Pay attention to not only what you're saying or doing but who you're saying and doing it with.

I think people look at me different when they see I'm dressed well. They pay attention. They know I'm about something.

Did Amy Winehouse have a hit single from 'Frank?' I love 'Frank,' but people didn't really pay attention to her until 'Back to Black.' So no, I haven't had a hit single. I personally am not bothered about that.

Men are naive to their bodies. They don't pay attention to their skin like women do.