Quotes About Perception

I don't like my bum, as it's too big. Or my nose because it's too small. It's like a child's nose.

I'm comfortable with my body but I don't like my bum - I think it's too big.

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.

I'm from New York. You walk by, you bump somebody and they give you a look. There's always an attitude.

Some people say the people I'm fighting are bums, but I don't see it like that.

I don't have anything against long hair. I've known some crew-cut bums.

I have been robbed a bunch of times. And now that I know how to pickpocket, I understand why I have been pickpocketed so many times.

Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it.

People are just way too sensitive. You couldn't have a show like 'Archie Bunker' on TV. People would go crazy; they would lose their minds.

People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.

It is a burden that people have expectations about me.

I think a lot of burden is put on someone's middle name, but the reality is that you never use it.

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.

I think when the people in Burma stop thinking about whether or not they're free, it'll mean that they're free.

Nobody is ready to burn money just because you have a filmi lineage.

When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.

That's life's big joke: we all end up looking like Mr. Burns.

People think I can burst into song any time of the day, it's crazy.

Where my comedy really solidified was when Bush was elected. I couldn't understand how craven and crass he was, and how dumb other people were for electing him.

It's disconcerting that there's been this weird business model focused on teenaged boys, and it comes with a completely unexamined social cost. I hope there's an awareness happening to create an audience habituated to seeing women as they really are, rather than just a masticated shadow.

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

Because I had three years on 'Perception,' I think I succeeded in showing I can do other things, and I can create a different audience, even from people who loved 'Will & Grace.'