Quotes About Perception

I understand why biting is seen so badly.

There's so many bits on a car these days it's hard to know where everything is. You have a bit of an idea but if you are behind someone and you suddenly change direction it's hard to know exactly where the car is.

People expect me to be angry, bitter. They expect to me be abrasive, aggressive. I'm not.

Sounding bitter is not a good look. Less so if you're retired.

People think being famous is fun. It's not. Even a little bit of fame. It's bizarre. It's weird.

That's bizarre to see, L.A., downtown, and to feel like you're the only person there.

I always felt like reality was a bizarre place, and everybody was really good at being normal, and I didn't know how to do it.

'Westworld' is bizarre. I don't know what to think of 'Westworld.'

The idea of being a role model is bizarre.

When I first got to Los Angeles, hip-hop music was a scary thing not only to white America but to middle-class black America.

To me, Punisher is pretty black and white. He's very simple, and at the same time, he's very complex. I don't know why I think I understand the guy, but I feel I do.

There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people still don't understand it. It's not just black and white, you know?

The idea that a person can be both black and white - and at the same time neither - is novel in America.

My Open record is not particularly good if you look at it on paper. But at the same time I don't feel like it is as bad as the black and white suggests.

So often, blackness is seen in a negative light.

I think that unlearning race for black people is more along the lines of seriously saying blackness isn't real, race isn't real.

Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

If the world misunderstands us, then I don't blame others, it's our problem.

I never blame the refs as I know how tough it is, how fast the play goes, how difficult it is to keep up with the play.

I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.

I grew up around religious and elevator music. I didn't know any better, so I just thought music was kind of bland. So I didn't listen to much as kid.

Throughout my life, I've known that if I change my hair, if I change my look, people I know will blank me in the street.

Sometimes the best experiences are when I know nothing about this movie: I've never met the director, and I come and see something and I'm blank, because then it's coming at you in a way it would never come at you if you'd read the script, with an expectation.

I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.