Quotes About Perception

Classically, it's the child who looks up at their parents who says, 'This is how the future is going to be,' and it's the parents who don't understand because they're set in their ways. For me, it was the exact opposite.

Most athletes act all unhuman and you can't relate to them. I'm the exact opposite.

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same.

I make a film - and once I've made it, everyone comes along and says 'Ah! This is a film that's political, or social', or whatever. But I'm not telling the story that they see. I made a film, told a story, but I wasn't thinking about exactly what it all meant.

You can't live in a town like Braddock and not know exactly what gunfire sounds like.

I understand exactly what I am.

People don't know exactly what I do; they just know I'm 'cool.'

I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why.

Sometimes with the Palins, it's exactly what it looks like.

Everything isn't exactly what it seems from the outside.

But sometimes that title 'jazz' can vex people who think they know exactly what jazz always is and will be.

When you engage with people as an artist you know exactly what they feel and what they're thinking.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

I think film cannot only teleport you to places you don't know, but it can help you see people you thought were one way and in fact are another. They can allow us to examine ourselves.

No one tells a child how to see, especially in the early years. They learn this through real-world experiences and examples.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

I'm not really attracted to a big, jacked guy. I think that's a little excessive.

Fashion alone is so far from being the whole story. It seems that with fashion, as with art, things are getting easier in one sense, but at the same time, it is getting harder to be stimulated about things or excite people.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

The lamest excuse that I get incessantly is, 'Oh, we're not going ethnic with that role,' so I can't go in for it, or I can't get the part, which is really stupid, because, in today's world, people look different.

I prefer to be known as an executive rather than a girl.

Never trust a television executive.

Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.

I don't know how people say exercising is addictive.