Quotes About Perception

I am so energetic and affectionate 24/7 that people around me think I do drugs.

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.

Sometimes it's hard, when you start engaging with people on the Internet, to forget that, actually, we really don't know one another... that's something I need to learn a lot more.

You never see girls running after engineers.

It's not like I'm nervous of people seeing what I can or can't do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think.

When I was driving the simulator, out of the three engineers I worked with one was a woman. So it was very difficult for me to turn around and tell people that I worked in a male-dominated environment, because it wasn't.

For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.

Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.

Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America.

If I go to England, they know I'm not an Englishman, but most Americans think I'm English.

I have never thought of my life as being an enigma.

I am one of the people who just doesn't enjoy watching myself. I wish I could! I've seen 'Deadpool' three times; the third time, it was enjoyable for me.

I find that quite enjoyable, trying to see the downsides of someone.

I've been doing this long enough that you can tell when people have seen you in something they didn't enjoy, and when they have seen you in something they actually enjoyed.

If you're not enjoying yourself, you can't really look as if you are.

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

There's an enormous amount of obliviousness: a desire among young gentrifiers to see only the city they want to see.

I thought 'Benson' was going to be more of an ensemble show. But it was called 'Benson' for a reason.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.

When I entered the industry, I was told that I was fit for only television and not films.

On the old passports, mine used to say 'entertainer', but now on forms I say 'actor'. But I still worry that people will think I'm a charlatan.

I don't consider myself an image-driven actor. I believe audiences come to watch my films because they are entertaining and not because of my image.

Most songs are not true. They're just to be entertaining.