Quotes About Perception

People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are.

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

If you're on TV, you can't complain, right? And I understand that, and it's true to a certain degree.

Certainly anyone who complains of sexism is marked down as humourless.

When you're on TV in America, the girls love you. I'm not complaining.

I don't ever feel like I have to stop myself from complaining about how hard it is to be an actress. I mean, it's not that hard.

Those who are complaining about Bombay's law and order should be sent to U.P. and Bihar - only then they will realize how safe and secure Bombay is.

I see some people complain about Dana; I've got no complaints about Dana.

I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

As a kid, I didn't know much about Prince - who he was and all the complexities of his personality - but I could still feel very close to him when I listened to his music.

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

People don't usually compliment your character.

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

For me it's a compliment, playing baddie characters. I take it as a compliment.

I've been cast as myself so many times, I guess I should catch on and figure out if it's a compliment.

I know when people say I'm some sort of Cinderella Man that it's meant as a compliment. I appreciate that, but to be totally honest, it doesn't feel like one, because it isn't true.

I take the fact that people cast me more in negative roles as a compliment.

I've gotten a lot of compliments on the 'Criminal Minds' guy. I guess it's because the look of that character is so different from what people expect of me.

I usually get a lot of compliments from people as they can't believe I'm the same person when they meet me.

Whenever I watch a movie I like to imagine what sort of music I might compose for a scene, to create a particular kind of atmosphere, because when I see something I hear something.

I love a well composed shot. It doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, but it must be well composed.