Quotes About Perception

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.

I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

I think it's a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories.

The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief."

The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.

'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.

I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling.

I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.

We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.

I felt different born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette.

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.

That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.

I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.