Quotes About Perception

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.

I keep reading between the lies.

I don't feel that 40 is anything these days. Our life expectancy is so much greater that maybe 50 is the new 40.

For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go.

Not everybody's life is a movie.

My lifestyle is probably not quite what people would expect it to be.

I don't lead a Hollywood lifestyle.

According to Lifetime, I don't know anything about TV.

If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work.

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

What's heavy for me when I lift, probably isn't actually a lot of weight.

In real life, I'm far more lighthearted than I come across on the records.

I believe in naturalistic lighting, which isn't to say natural light.

People don't realize that lighting can change the whole look of a place and the feel.

I'd rather be called lightweight than serious any day.

I don't trust people who are likable.

So we all want to be liked; I just don't always think I'm that likeable. I think my personality is really 50-50.

I think most actors like to be liked.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

I'm not a model or an actress; I'm just a 23 year old who likes to talk about science. Why does what I look like matter so much?

The idea of someone not liking me or not liking my movie was always easier to deal with than someone really liking it. I don't know why.

People liked me in the character of an old person and I started liking that too.

I'm in limbo. The baseball people are like, 'Oh, he's basketball athletic.' The basketball people are like, 'Well, he plays baseball, so he's probably not that athletic.'