Quotes About Perception

I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.

I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan base are like, 'Hey!' and high-five him and want to hang out, but mine go behind pillars and get really freaked out.

The thing that I guess I've never understood is why people persist that I carried a crown on a pillow to Reverend Moon. I never did. I took it to his wife.

After 'Entourage,' it completely opened up my casting within the industry. People saw me for a lot of roles that I hadn't been seen for before. Older roles. I went out this pilot season for a lot of lawyers and doctors. And cops - which I haven't quite mastered yet; I find that quite difficult.

I did a CNN pilot but they decided I wasn't Anthony Bourdain.

I never dreamed to be a fighter pilot, because those guys are jerks.

My 3-year-old daughter told my wife she doesn't think I'm a pilot anymore because I don't fly. That was crushing.

I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting 'Awakening'.

I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I've become really comfortable with as I've gotten older. My scars.

Sometimes you become the person people try to pin you into a corner to be, which is not really fair.

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.

Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you.

I'm no pin-up.

I find it funny that I'm a pin-up.

People will want to say this or that about you, but take it with a pinch of salt.

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

Even at 30 or 40, if something doesn't do well, it still hurts. If I pinch someone, the pain is going to be the same whether the person is young or old.

It definitely feels like I'm living a dream, but I try not to pinch myself because I don't want to wake up.

It is really difficult to read a movie script about yourself and to think that a major actor - perhaps even Chris Pine - is going to play this role is really daunting.

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

The late 80s was quite a difficult time for me as an artist because I'd almost become a parody of myself. All people wanted was pink hair and for me to sing 'I Want to Be Free.' There's nothing wrong with either of those but people need to see you as a person for you to be an artist.

Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed.

I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

I played myself in an Aziz Ansari comedy, and that was funny to see how they saw me... flowing scarves and a flourish of pink! Eek!