Quotes About Perception

I feel like people see me as this girl next door, and that comes across in my photos.

I am so used to seeing a blond in the mirror that I forget that for most of my life I was very dark. Old photos are still a bit of a shock.

I played up to a caricature when I was in the band, always pouting in photos and being the entertainer. But I'm also emotional and sensitive, not as thick-skinned as people think.

The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they're a designer.

I hate when people say I Photoshop myself.

I find the sneeriness about 'selfie-culture' quite boring - I'm excited by young people taking control of their own images and finding out for themselves how much Photoshop has done for models.

My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.

You become a model once you go through hair, makeup, and Photoshop.

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely on what it sees. It acts on what it expects of the Fed or the government.

'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

I'm probably a guy's girl, although I hate that phrase. I tend to have more close male friends than I do female friends, and I always have. I would say that of my 10 close friends, seven are men.

I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?

I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.

Beauty is not just physical.

When a man comments on your physical appearance, the effect is often just to distract from your professional ability.

A woman's physical body language and intelligence change as her age progresses.

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

I think it's important to see where compliments are coming from - if they're compliments about your inside, your heart, or if they're about your physicality or your personality.