Quotes About Perception

Everybody kind of always bags on me because I use the word 'awesome' a lot.

I love beautiful clothes, shoes, and bags like everyone else. However, I do not put a lot of emphasis on who I wear and how much my clothes cost. If it's a label, it's a label. If it's not, it's not.

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.

It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm cold-hearted.

I think it's good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older - it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

My whole career, I was pretty much bald. So, people just got to know me as being a bald guy.

Half the people tell me, 'I love 'Go All the Way,' but why do you have to write all those schlocky ballads.' And half say, 'I love 'All By Myself,' but why do you waste your time with this rock 'n' roll stuff?' I'd like to think that I could do both.

I always thought it is a bit of a balloon, how rich we are.

When you're out dancing with your friends, you think you're cool. But then you get in the ballroom, and it's totally different.

When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.

We were accused of sounding like a couple of bands when we started out. Aerosmith was one.

People bang on all the time about whether what I've done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just a series of elaborate fictions.

I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.

I'm about as Baptist as you get in Hollywood.

If I walk up to a bar, they wont see that I'm standing there.

When I go into a sports bar, some of the people I wouldn't think would watch women's basketball are there watching.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

There are actors who don't get out of their Barbie Doll avatars, but that's not who I am.

Being Australian is a lot more than saying 'g'day mate' and 'throw a shrimp on the Barbie.'