Quotes About Perception

The things I want to make into a film, they're personal, esoteric things, and I don't expect anyone else to like them as much as I do. I generally like my films more than anybody else will.

Everybody is saying, 'ESPN is not cool, no one is paying attention to ESPN, they're all paying attention to the Barstools of the world.' Why? Because we're authentic.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

Listening is the essence of anything.

We always start with the music even though people assume that the lyrics are the essence.

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

For some reason, I don't like the term 'model-turned-actress' - which is what I am, essentially.

There's been a lot written and said about my family. A lot of specials, a lot of movies. I essentially don't watch any of them. I don't read any of them. I keep that away.

Directors assume I'm, like, establishment.

People hold my father in very high esteem, but what was amazing was that nobody looked at me as a woman; I was never made aware of the fact that I am a woman.

If I was happy for eternity I don't think I could enjoy it.

The only thing that said 'Lando Calrissian' was ethnic was his looks.

An Australian actor wouldn't have the experience to feel how it is to be in Australia as a European.

I have a very European feel about nudity.

Americans don't like European movies.

You can accuse Europeans of being many things - except fast.

Of course, South Americans are different from Europeans; I knew that when we played them.

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

Trust into leadership evaporates with communities when they see that their problems are not adequately addressed, neither at the national level nor at the international arena.

Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.

The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.

I do accents. Sometimes when I've had a few drinks, I speak in different accents all night long, and then at the end of an evening someone will say to me, 'Seriously, where are you from?'

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

I approach styling as if I were a woman and what I would want to wear to a certain event.