Quotes About Perception

I love acting, though I don't like the frills around it - red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.

It's such a tough business. And once people see you a certain way, it's really hard for them to change their minds about you.

You play the game a certain way, and people think your personality off the field should be just as electrifying. That's not the case.

Having to look a certain way, or be a certain weight, comes from magazines, movies, the media.

It is okay, I believe it is not wrong for the industry or the audience to think that a lead actress must look a certain way or have a body of a certain type.

I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.

I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

If I change my name again y'all can have me certified as crazy. Alright?

I often have the feeling that acting is really not difficult, because all I do is I just listen. I just listen. I just listen to what there is. And if there's nothing, then I listen to nothing. If there's a chair, and it's empty, I listen to an empty chair, and I will respond to it.

One actress can't challenge or change anything.

When we talk of identity, we often think of groups such as black Muslim lesbians in wheelchairs. This is because identity only seems to become an issue when it is challenged or under threat.

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

People think because you're a celebrity, because you're on TV, because you're 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Men Alive, things like that, that we're bathing in champagne and taking limos door to door. But we're literally the same guys, just with much busier schedules.

You do get labelled in the game, and that's why I enjoyed my time managing in the Championship. I'd back myself against most people in that division.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any one of us can make that change, in any direction, at any moment.

I live in the same house as I did when I started acting. My life hasn't changed. Only people around me have changed with how they look at me.

Sometimes you see women that don't realize that age is changing your style, and they don't change.

I can't keep changing myself according to how someone sees me.

Channel brand is so key.

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

It is a really interesting to hear yourself on the radio. I've gotten to hear myself in different capacities. I've heard myself on Sirius XM on the bluegrass channels, and on WSM and other places.

My dad was a regular dad. At home, he wasn't Bonzo the animal. He was a very intellectual, quiet chap - not the beast we all know.