Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?

Generally speaking, talk to any stand-up comedian, the people in this world who are the brightest and have the biggest smile often are struggling with a lot of things under the surface.

I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian....

I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it...

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.

I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one.

I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.

When I was playing well, nobody was saying I was playing well. When I was playing badly, I would be the first one on the front of the journal.

I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

I've come to a point where I am less nervous when I am supposed to start a film. I am still super nervous on the day but I've lost a lot of my fear about what kind of perception people have about my...

I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good...

And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it.

I do feel like in filmmaking you are largely in control of the perception of you. If you want to be seen as the comedic person you've got to write a comedy and go after that.

When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank for me, but I just thought it was this fun thing that I was so excited to do. You got to be on the set...

What Democrats call 'nuanced', most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

For all that we can see from the road in China, there is a lot that we cannot see. We miss what's behind the trees, the cover-ups, the darker side of things - the ingredients that so often drive a...

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

A lot of people have said I look Bengali!

Usually, I play people who are a lot younger than I am, because people think that I look really young, which I do.

I don't really listen to the media or anyone's perception of beauty, so it makes me almost immune to silly comments about my body.

As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit...

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.

What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.

I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes disorganized and chaotic world? How and why do we categorize things? Why can...

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.