Quotes About Perception

I'm always amazed that people are interested in comedy.

When I came to London in 1986, I was amazed at how prudish everyone was.

I've met such amazing people in their 40s, in their 60s, 70s, and they completely bely their age on paper.

One of the guys I used to watch was Georges St. Pierre. Watching him, I thought this guy is awesome, he's doing all these amazing things... I was 16 at the time and I thought he was like 32, and it turned out he was like 21-22.

You have to make decisions - you know what you think. That doesn't mean the audience are aware of your decisions or what you think - the lines you're saying may have ambiguity.

I am Indian-American, but I often play ethnically ambiguous roles.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

After 'Amen' people started recognising me. It made me think that acting is better than direction.

My dad told me that he came to the U.S. because of watching Hollywood movies. So the American Dream for him was based on what you see in films.

I grew up watching films of predominantly white families speaking in English, and that this represented the American experience.

The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.

American men are like women.

I don't think there is much American music.

I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.

They're just big in the eyes of the American public.

For all the anti-Americanism around the world, people have this love of Americana.

I really do not have a favorite amongst Trump surrogates. They all look the same to me. They really all sound eerily alike.

I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.

What people don't understand is that when I hear what somebody has said about me, I wonder, 'Don't you know what they are saying about you, too?' It's quite amusing.

At home, I'm just Amy, but in India, I get mobbed.

People's analysis of why to vote with me had to do with how they felt I could handle my family.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

If you're androgynous, that's what you look like.

I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.