Quotes About Perception

Sadly, in my work on shows like 'Eat Well For Less?' I know that people ARE misinformed about what's on their plate. Many would be shocked to discover their Friday fish and chips is close to 1,400 calories.

I learned that things taste better on pretty plates.

People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking - as are 'Band of Brothers' and 'Platoon' and 'Full Metal Jacket' and 'Apocalypse Now.' But they're not necessarily true to war in a literal sense. What they are, really, are brilliant movies about Hollywood's idea of war.

I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

Only a genius can play a fool.

I can have an accent and not have an accent, so it's really cool. I can play with it. I can be very Sofia Vergara, too, so it's really cool.

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

Someone once accused me of slumming. I don't know what that means. I play basketball. And through that, I get to see a world that is not smart-kid world.

I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

You don't have to be a strapping lad to play football.

I don't want to be perceived as the money-grabbing 20-year-old; I just want to be perceived as the kid who loves to play football.

Judge me on how I play football, or judge me on when you meet me.

I don't really think about things too much, but people are going to form impressions about you if you play football, aren't they? And if they think you're the funny guy or the boy that likes a laugh, well that ain't so bad.

I think I've heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don't dress very well.

People think I can really play golf, but it's actually been almost an albatross for me. I really struggle not only to break 80, but sometimes to break 90.

That whole 'Bo' Selecta!' thing was damaging. I played along with it; I said it was cool, I can take a joke, roll with it, so I went on the show. But it was killing me.

After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.