Quotes About Perception

I wanted to have lots of characters in 'Bebop' without white skin, and if people weren't used to that, well, maybe it would even make them think a little bit about it.

The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.

When I was a kid, people people would always say, 'Oh you look like Chilli from TLC.' It wasn't until I did 'Akeelah and the Bee' that people started saying I looked like Angela Bassett, but before then it was Chilli.

Never have lives less lived been more chronicled.

I know, everybody thinks that all Aussies love beer. I guess most of them do, but not me.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.

What was weird, as a 12-year-old actor, was being expected to behave like an adult while still being treated as a kid everywhere else.

Don't forget I'm not English. English people maybe don't behave like we Europeans do.

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.

Why can't I prove that advertising can manifest itself in a way that doesn't necessarily mean television ads but changing behaviour and creating a brand out of something that already exists?

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

It's hard to say I don't like being famous, but how I feel is that I don't see myself as that person. It baffles me that people would want a picture with me.

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laugh, then you know you're not being funny. That's a really fun challenge, and that's what draws me to comedy.

People know me from my social media and television appearances and they'd see through me if I wasn't being honest.

I can tell if I'm being lied to or manipulated a little better than most. It's definitely an advantage for me.