Quotes About Perception

I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

People are sheepish when they approach me.

Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable.

I think people are particularly interested to see who the real me is, but... different stories call for different approaches and you change based on the experience you want that person to have.

What's appropriate in America anymore?

As an audience member myself, I love to be in a position where I'm trying to figure out what I am supposed to feel or if what I'm feeling is appropriate or not.

I certainly don't approve of American actors who go to Europe and run down Hollywood.

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.

Listen to David Lammy, an archetypal successful black man. If you turn the screen off so that you are listening to him on radio you would think he was white.

I've met architects before, and they're not living the life we see on TV.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

A lot of times, I walk down the street and listen to people argue, and then I write a song about it.

I would argue there's not a lot of guys that has to do more than just catch the ball like me.

When you have a white male making the arguments, they carry more weight... Should they carry more weight? Absolutely not. But do they? Yes.

My arm is so long, I kind of shoot over my head sometimes.

People often don't believe me when they first meet me and I tell them I'm a judoka. I then show them my arms, which speak for themselves.

Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.

I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.

Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.

I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant.

I shouldn't say it, but I found that the French can be the most arrogant people in the world if they want to be.