Quotes about Perception

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

I know that being an actor, I'm a public figure and anything that I do will become news.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

People like to see a guy being built up; they like to see a guy go from the bottom to the top, but then once you're on the top for a little bit, people wait to see you fail, and they want you to fail, so they find flaws and they find reasons, whether it's being too nice or trying to make you out to be fake - that's what they do.

You can't fool children.

I'm never the biggest guy on the football field.

I see the wielding of a pronoun as something that can be freeing for some members of society but a shackle to others like myself.

I wear false eyelashes at work so I get used to that fuller look all the time, so when I get home, I'm like 'ugh, it's not the same.'

I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.

He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch.