Quotes About Perception

Every actor is different, but it's a very fine line when it comes to how much information they have versus how much they need to let their imagination fill in the blanks.

I feel like in the NFL, they preach loyalty and family and they have none for you. As a player, you see it's not a family during negotiations, how it becomes them versus me or me versus them. That's part of the NFL I believe the fans don't see.

You know, I try not to think too much about women guitarists versus men guitarists; the world does that for me.

What does it mean when I wear something that makes me look like a Disney Princess? Versus something that's like 'ooh, maybe Kiki Layne can be a sex symbol.' Because these are things that, sometimes dark skin actors with natural hair, we don't get put into those types of conversations.

In fact, American presidents never apologize for what America does in war, because in the American mind, all its wars are defensive, always fought from the high moral ground, always good versus evil.

I think I might not be the best vertical athlete, but I think I'm quicker than people give me credit for. That was the biggest knock on me coming out of college.

We work in vertical and horizontal planes. We avoid depth characteristics as much as possible. This reduces the number of pictures in a five minute segment from 12,000 to 1,200. And the public likes the technique better.

From my vertical, people, especially men, don't realize what clothes can do for their self-esteem, the way they see themselves, their confidence.

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.

It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.

We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.

It's not the things you don't know that trip you up. It's the things you think you know, but you don't. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business.

When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem.

Money is the probably the most successful story ever told. It has no objective value... but then you have these master storytellers: the big bankers, the finance ministers... and they come, and they tell a very convincing story.

It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I'm a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don't notice.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Very few of us are what we seem.

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.

People know me as just this handsome guy - a very handsome guy. But I can also be funny and fun.