Quotes About Perception

The black experience, which has nothing to do with my play 'Angels in America,' allowed me to understand the Mormon character. He was the character that couldn't come out to his mother. It allowed me to understand emotional and closeted behavior, because you're so acutely aware of how you're perceived.

Most people have perceived my brand and my personality as this guy that just is so happy, he has no cares in the world.

One of the clear problems of Obamacare is that it was perceived, I think rightly, as one party forcing its vision of how healthcare should be upon the rest of the country.

In the past, the movies I've made are perceived as dark, but a lot of comedies are way darker.

A gender capitalist is someone who takes advantage of opportunities given to people based on their perceived sex or gender.

When you're young, and you're doing stuff, you're making music, directing, making art, it's all future directed. You want to change stuff onward. And when you get older - this applies to me - you think about the things you want to do and how it will be perceived by your children one day.

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

Sometimes a break-up song is perceived as that because that's what the person who's hearing it needs.

I've always had faith in my ring ability, but sometimes it's how you are perceived, and how good you are doesn't matter.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me.

Technology is not going to be perceived by different classes of people in the same way.

It can be difficult for players who are perceived to have turned their backs on England, as Wilfried Zaha has found out after deciding to play for Ivory Coast.

We as parents, and the control culture, it is our responsibility to make sure we give the right perceived norms and the right cultural conditions.

I've been put in multiple boxes as blogging and as an influencer and not really perceived as a businesswoman, and that's something that I've really had to grow into.

I think there is pressure when it comes to the perceived notion that if you are woman in sports you're there for your looks. You cannot try to look nice on TV and also know what you're talking about.

It really doesn't matter whether it's an ensemble cast or it's a lead or what is perceived as a commercial or non-commercial or an offbeat film. None of that would matter, what really matters is the story and who's telling the story.

We all felt very passionate about what we wanted to do and how we wanted to be perceived by our fans and by the media.

I don't only like R&B. I always love in life when you see people acting in a way that is true and genuine to them but doesn't fit into the perceived notion of how they would respond to something.

Nobody at school would have expected me to be involved in anything that might have been perceived as cool. I was trying to make people laugh all the time, but my dad was the headmaster and I was quite swotty.

It was just really exciting to see dark people in white people's clothing, or what is perceived as white people garb.

Every woman is beautiful in her own way and I don't know why people have norms and ideas on how beauty is perceived.

I introspect on how I am perceived by other people. It's been this way since my childhood.

Not that I am hugely working class, but in the U.K. I'm always perceived, casting-wise, as being working class.