Quotes About Perception

With a lot of these social stigmas, they just don't need to be in place. Just by talking about them, we can often shatter them.

I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they do, I tend to take them off.

If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!

Because I've been around for quite a long time and done a lot of different stuff, there's a shifting idea of who I am.

Memory warps and stretches and shifts to fit the strictures of your life.

When I pick up a book that's, you know, wreathed in laurels, I expect a lot, and that doesn't give the book its best chance to shine.

The reality is, because of access to film, you don't have a lot of black people who want to go behind the camera. We raise our children to want to be in front of the camera and shine, and that's on us.

Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an audience on them. Great writing and live writing are two separate things.

To be honest , I looked at 'The Shining' as just doing another movie.

I feel a bit like a magpie attracted to shiny things.

I say never trust a man who combs his hair so as to cover his shiny dome and then flaunts a wife young enough to be his daughter. Oh, Trump has issues all right.

I don't take my shirt off in every film I do.

There is a difference between looking all right in a shirt and taking the shirt off. The older that us dudes get, the more the paunch has to be worked on. It's hard.

You can hate on me all you want to, but what can you possibly say to somebody that looks like Rambo, pretty much, with his shirt off.

We're not trying to shock people with our image.

I believe movies are showing us what we already know with aliens especially, so when we do get to meet them it's not a big shock.

It's no longer possible to find something which will shock other people, because everything has already been done.

I like to create a shock moment. I take what not everybody wants and really get people to believe that's me.

A lot of people are shocked when they hear that I played a 14-year-old.

Fast cutting, loud music, blood spewing everywhere, and gunshots permeating the scenes does not necessarily make for a shocking movie.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.

People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.

I think my music is a little shocking to some people because my voice is very traditional-sounding, and my music is not.