Quotes About Perception

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

It's amazing when you see something on T.V. for years and then you go and see it in person. It's perspective is all different.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.

It is always the case that when something emerges - which, of course, from the perspective of the former West Germany looks very different - then people say, 'She hasn't told us this yet' and 'She hasn't told us that yet.' I don't know - maybe there are other things I didn't talk about because no one ever asked me.

I'm comfortable, culturally I'm American, my perspectives are American, but from an aesthetic perspective do other people look at me and think that I'm American?

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

There's such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that's not what you go into the job for, and yet you're persuaded that's what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself.

There's a classic medical aphorism: 'Listen to the patient; they're telling you the diagnosis.' Actually, a lot of patients are just telling you a lot of rubbish, and you have to stop them and ask the pertinent questions. But, yes, in both drama and medicine, isolated facts can accumulate to create the narrative.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.

People do like to talk us down, it's a Scottish thing. We are pessimistic, we look for the negatives all the time.