Quotes About Perception

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

Movies are too literal.

Film in many ways is very literal.

People take songs so literally.

I work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two.

Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're interested, but you get a feeling.

I literally think I look bad in every picture.

I never think of people's literary potential when I meet them, but people do audition.

I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death.

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.

When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.'

Datelines are kind of an anachronism. It's a little bit of an affectation.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

No matter what I do, unless I break his records, I'm still going to be Sterling's little brother.

There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults.

I wanted people not to look at me as a little girl, but I was a little girl so how could I ask the world not to?

Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.

If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.

For a little kid like me, growing up in Carle Place, you put on John Lee Hooker late at night, and it's a different reality. I try to feel that music from the inside out because I was really attracted to it.

When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.

The media exaggerate little things.

I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it took a little while for people to think of me as an actress from a film that they liked instead of just that character.

When I am out in Liverpool, the fans come up and talk to me. But I cannot take in everything they say because I don't understand all of it.