Quotes About Perception

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.

There's two sides to the sword. It's like, for as many people that love you, there's all the people out there who hate you.

Media is a double-edged sword and has the power to change hearts and minds through authentic storytelling as well as the power to paint a person, or an entire community, in a dim and misleading light.

For too long, I equated leadership with a position. I thought leaders were presidents or politicians or celebrities or four-star generals with a horse and sword.

If you want to do 'Sword & Sandals' movies, people think that means it equals 'epic.'

I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.

I kind of assumed all of Australia was like the Gold Coast - so I was telling people Australians just work out and go to the beach. Like, Australia has it figured out! But then I went to Sydney, and it was nothing like the Gold Coast - but I still loved it.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

What I don't like about Washington, if we say one syllable or one sentence, or this guy said something bad about me, then, all of a sudden, they have to be my mortal enemy. I don't think that's how it works in American business.

It messes me up sometimes when I go on stage and people say my name wrong. Say my name wrong with all these different syllables. I've heard everything. My name is easy as 1-2-3. Jer-eh-mih, syllable-wise.

I would describe my relationship with my couch as symbiotic - others would describe it as dangerous.

I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.

We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you work with someone like George Clooney.

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?