Quotes About Perception

I don't wear perfume, and I don't like the air to be too saturated with scents.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things.

Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

We need to challenge this assumption that any child who's alone, who isn't being directly supervised and observed, is a child in in peril.

Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally.

John Cougar Mellencamp - I didn't like him in the beginning. I liked some of the stuff around the 'Scarecrow' period. I go back and forth on him all the time, but I think he's a good artist. I don't know if he's a great artist or not, but he rose above his original level of achievement.

But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.

Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic.

Some people think that culture is overhyped and peripheral. A season of opera is less important than the refurbishment of a school, they say. Leaving aside the poverty of imagination and aspiration implicit in such a sentiment, it also ignores hardheaded economic reality: Britain, and London in particular, makes big money from culture.

It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.

My peripheral vision has been severely limited because of my diabetes, which means I can see just fine looking straight ahead. But if I am at a function with lots of people, I am constantly bumping into people - even kicking them!

What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.

I'm not pert and perky anymore - when you're over 60, it's 'feisty.'

I think that 'celebrity' and 'chef' should be a permanent oxymoron.

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

I grew up with a father who didn't wear a watch, and this has permanently marked my relationship with time.

As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.