Quotes About Perception

Cliches are what make you understand something.

If you look around, 90 percent of marriages are cliches - people aren't genuinely happy even if they look happy together.

No one has ever told me that I act badly. It is just that most of the films I did didn't click.

We're living in a world where clients constantly are saying to me, 'The most important thing you can do is to tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear.'

Once you become more like Madison Avenue, you become acutely sensitive to what's going to annoy your clients.

You must look like a money person for clients to trust you.

All clients think that they are architects.

Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

I don't think kids climbing up the leg of someone is a big deal.

People see you on television, and they think you make the same amount of money that Clint Eastwood does. But this is PBS. All these shows are done for free.

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

All of these attacks on Secretary Clinton, at the end of the day, are character attacks.

I know sometimes the shots look a little crazy when I'm taking them early in the shot clock and stuff like that.

It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this.

All my close friends are normal dudes and then I will hang out with some girl who is a musician and everyone thinks that's what it's all about.

In America, they often don't know where I am from. The important point is the audience should not be able see through it. It should be so natural that your close friends may even think that you are not a great actor.

I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see people.

It's hard to sleep with both eyes closed in this business. It's a lot more mental than people think.

You never know what's really happening behind closed doors. Everything isn't always what it seems.

People can misconstrue closeness for love.

The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have about it.

We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's because people don't have the chance to be closer to it.

I'm closer to Bob Newhart than Rodney Dangerfield.

Sometimes, cameras can't capture a scene like your brain does. But the use of apps can help get it just a little closer to reality.