Quotes About Perception

'L.A. Law' has been a bit of a blessing and a curse. First of all, it was a very prestigious show that had a lot of intellect, and I was the pretty boy. I've had to battle that my whole career: 'Oh, you were the face guy. You didn't really have to act; you just had to wear the right suits.' I had to battle that.

I wear glasses and suits, so I guess I am an indie artist.

I love my black hair, but some imes I'd like to be blond, but I don't think it suits Asian girl... What a pity!

My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'

For years, they cast me in these dumb straight roles of businessmen in three-piece suits.

I don't look presidential. I don't wear, you know, three-piece suits and have my hair perfectly coiffed.

There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.

I'm starting to believe it when someone tells me 'Suits' is popular in another country. We're just acting, but we are reaching so many different kinds of people all over the world.

Al Sharpton doesn't even pay for his own suits.

Take a picture of you in a mirror or/and get somebody to take a photo of you and look back at it, it's quite a good way to figure out what suits you and looks good.

Because of how I am on the court, people think I'm wild and crazy. But really, I'm a kick-back guy, so Seattle suits me fine.

I don't think Sir Michael Clarke suits me at all, no.

I've always looked like I have a sort of bad-boy image as Too Short. People take that for face value. I kind of like that. I like the image. It suits me well.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

I believe there's more than this - that maybe, when we die, our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and that's what people try to sum up as the afterlife.

What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it. I thought that they must have run out of the right colour inks and sizes for the numbers, because they were all the same, which isn't how I experienced numbers at all. To me, nine is big and blue.

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.

I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.

Hey, it's a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn't begin to sum me up.