Quotes About Perception

When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.

I live in east London, but I'm not cool.

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If you are serious about your work, honest and straight-forward, you are labelled eccentric.

I shouldn't be called eccentric. I should be called a normal guy.

I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of money.

For me, Edge was just a character.

You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.

She liked to drink. Some in the family want to make more of it than that like maybe she needed drinking to take the edge off, but that was the way I always saw it: Mom liked to drink.

If you sign up for TV, expect the edit to make things interesting.

People need to remember that people edit their pictures, they change the way they want to look.

TV can edit things to make anyone look good or bad.

I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.

I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

As an actor, you can go in, and you give your best performance, but if you hand that performance to ten different directors and ten different editors, you get ten different movies.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

People assume that if you are an actress, you must not be very educated.

I hate the word educational! I mean, 'Downton Abbey' is educational in that you come away from it knowing so much more about that period than when the show started, but you don't come away thinking it was educational.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

I like the effect drink has on me.

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals either are or are not 'doing.'