Quotes About Perception

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.

As a female comic, if you talk about sex in any capacity, you will be branded a 'sex comic,' so I might as well go full force on it.

I'm not this crazy capitalist everybody thinks I am.

I know a lot of people think a cappella is this cutesy, kind of novel thing.

But what I say to people who don't know me and listen to people who say I'm a bad egg or whatever is that I was club captain at Fulham and club captain at Leeds.

I believe if I was white I would've been England captain for more than 10 years.

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

We had this idea, and I think a lot of people did going in, that you can make some short film and it's going to get industry attention and that's going to be your thing. And it was only later on at school that we realized that's very rare that a short film is going to capture the attention of anyone.

What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

I think living things can recognize the movement of other living things, and all the best animators in the world can't quite capture that something.

I come from theater and captured theater has a bad rap of being never what the live performance was.

I think objectifying women is not wrong if only her beauty is captured in an aesthetic manner.

I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.

Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.

There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's not there.

At school in the 1970s, no one cared about bullying. I spent the first four years being the apple of the teachers' eye and being bullied for it.

I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.

I really didn't want to enter the UFC in a fight that nobody really cared about or where people thought I was just going to whoop some guy.

I wasn't raised in a family that cared about how you look. The fact that I have made my living in acting, where that matters, that really feels antithetical to me as a person.

As far as TV goes, of course there's pressure to look good. It's not something I've ever cared about too much.

I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I do think, though, there were great comic actors like Thora Hird and Max Wall who only got taken seriously when they did straight roles at the end of their careers.

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

My mom was always very, very careful with my mind: what I saw and didn't see.