Quotes About Perception

Everybody thinks I'm so nice because they hear me so nice at night. And I'm like, 'No, I'm just tired. I'm exhausted, OK?'

Atlanta is Exhibit A in my belief that the marriage between hip-hop and sports is a failure.

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not.

I do remember instances where girls would just fawn over me because they liked that I was different - exotic - to them. And they didn't use the word 'Asian' at the time. All of the aspects that make me Asian, they liked.

I don't see myself as exotic.

As an actor, you want to do something which audience don't expect from you.

I think when you have to deal with everyone else's expectation and it's not in line with how you feel, that's difficult.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

I try not to think about the expectations of other people because there's always going to be expectations.

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

I've played roles that aren't expected of an Asian.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

We can only see as much and we can only go as far as our languages take us.

It is easy for people to sit behind their laptops and assassinate somebody's character.

The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation.

Even when I was young, I said age is largely a state of mind if you're healthy.

With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.

People don't have the opportunity to be larger than life anymore - they're afraid of seeing it on the Internet.

American films look at films with a larger than life attitude while the French films look at life as it is.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

If anything, when you're in your late 20s, early 30s, and then mid-30s, you're getting less attractive.