Quotes About Perception

Even 31 sounds quite old to me, because my brain is probably still in a state of adolescent delinquency.

One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

I was always treated older than I am when I was a kid, so I had to be like, 'No, I'm sweet,' and this has continued into adulthood because of the way society portrays Black women.

I feel like an old person. I feel like, 'What is this technology?' I think there's some seven-year-olds who are more advanced than I am right now.

I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

Women have an advantage in that they can think both like a woman and a man.

When I made my first film, it was just an adventure. But after my first movie, I guess I got more of a feeling of what was happening around me.

The public doesn't particularly care for advertisements.

Everyone thinks I am rich, I have a plush office, I make advertisements and travel - but only I know the kinds of problems I face.

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

I grew up in a country where advertising doesn't exist.

People don't generally like advertising that takes a stand.

Advertising has always been something I kind of understood.

Just because many of my friends happen to be male it doesn't mean I'm having an affair with them.

The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.

I realized I could affect how people treated me by how I acted.

I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that.

You can't help but be affected by anything negative that's written about you, even if you can shrug it off.

In my mind, I'm still that kid who gets affected by other people's music.

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

I do care about what people think about me sometimes, and sometimes it affects me in a negative way.

I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.