Quotes About Perception

Forgive me but I've been tutted at in Paris a fair few times and I still don't know if it's because I was wearing Asda jeans or had the temerity to order food in a restaurant.

Paris is the most modest girl.

I wrote a book of essays about New York called 'The Colossus of New York,' but it's not about - you know, when I'm writing about rush hour or Central Park, it's not a black Central Park, it's just Central Park, and it's not a black rush hour, it's just rush hour.

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays.

When you go to the park, there is no horizon - just Disneyland.

When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.

Millennials in particular get a lot of flack for their supposed entitlement and narcissism, but these evaluations have never matched my experience with hiring young people at Warby Parker.

Warby Parker designs experiences, not products.

When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

Young, handsome men never flirt with me. I get heat from old dudes that run the parking garages.

I don't have a worry about women because I keep reading that not only are they better at school, they are now better at parking, better at navigating... we know that women are good at everything.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

As far as what part of myself I brought to Five, I've always considered myself not really my age.

People assume that I'm an aristocrat, but I don't really feel part of any class.

Rumours are a part and parcel of being an actor, and I am okay with that.

Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.

I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.

We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.

I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I justified it is that... because I'm on TV, I shouldn't be eliminated from participating in what's going on in the world. But people are always like, 'I can't believe you're on a dating app!'