Quotes About Perception

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

I speak English. I dream in it. I cannot separate my English from my Shona; I see the world with those two languages.

We must all learn how to separate reality from fantasy.

I think marriage and live-in relationships aren't really different. It is just a piece of paper that separates the two.

I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.

They're making me out to be a serial marrying person or something. I'm laughing at that.

Funny is when you're serious.

People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.

When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

Sometimes you say punchlines or say things in music and you may not even know any seriousness behind it. You're just trying to say something in the moment to catch attention.

I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.

A lot of people think I'm snotty. So what? They never asked me out when I was serving cheeseburgers.

Twitter's great because people can say whatever they want, they can feel like they're the biggest hero or they can just be a fan but just settle down, it's ridiculous.

People always come up to me and say, Oh, you're Chloe Se-VIG-ny, right? Sevigny. Number seven, letter e.

'Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it.

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.