Quotes about Perception

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

At the end of the day, even if you are cooler than Obama, the media will never let you be cooler.

I think you can tell a lot by someone's footwear - cowboy boots would put me off, as would a man in Ugg boots or Crocs.

I just look at Miley Cyrus, and I'm like, 'Great, you've doubled your audience. But you've also doubled the number of people that hate you, and doesn't that hurt?' It takes a crazy person not to be affected by that.

I get a lot of credit for comb-overs. But it's not really a comb-over. It's sort of a little bit forward and back. I've combed it the same way for years. Same thing, every time.

My curves are not crazy.

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

People too often - because it's an easy, lazy tag - dwell on my style of football.