Quotes About Perception

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could own us. Once you become successful, people don't have that any more, so it becomes more polarised. Some people want to champion you, and others want to slag you off. It doesn't concern me.

I worked with Salman even when he was not doing so well, so now that he is successful, people think I have an agenda.

I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, 'Yippee, I'm getting older'?

Typecasting is really rampant in Hollywood, and because I played a costumed character and did it successfully, it was a real stigma.

Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party.

When I really have it together, I think I successfully pull off looking like the exact middle point between Macklemore and Ron Howard, only with a much bigger forehead than either of them.

A lot of actresses say they are 24 when they are 34 but I find that ridiculous. I wish we didn't succumb to the youth-is-all ideology in this industry, because there is a huge audience out there who want to relate to characters of their own age played by actors of their own age.

People think that because I was at Liverpool for such a long time - in a period where the club was very successful - that it was bliss all the way.

I feel like I've been around for such a long time, as a writer and as an artist, that I need to sort of speak to the way that my perception of the world has sort of changed.

Lots of people said that I have been a comic actor for such a long time, but as a director I was very serious.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.

There is such a thing as bad publicity.

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack.

I don't think there's such a thing as a 'best' drummer.

If there is such a thing as 'a Cukor style,' I guess it arises out of two principal factors: my own personalized perception of the world and my ability to deal professionally with actors. As far as perception is concerned, I always try to imagine settings through the best possible eyes.

I never was a liner note junkie. I didn't know who produced records or there was such a thing as a straight songwriter. I always assumed that everybody that was singing a song wrote it or made it up.

Is there such a thing as black art? Or are there just artists who are black?

It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case.