Perception quotes

“I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!”
Sir Michael Caine

“Think of them as fleas on a dog hit by a car driven by a drunken teenager whose girlfriend just gave him the clap. It will help you sense of perspective.”
Sir John Hurt - Lawrence Fassett

“I hate my father. I hate my life. But I feel great! You guys are great. I'm gonna go pick a fight.”
Chris Farley - Milton

“- Nicholas Angel: Danny, this is murder.
- PC Danny Butterman: It's not murder, it's ketchup.”

Simon Pegg - Nicholas Angel
Nick Frost - PC Danny Butterman

“- Tom Manning: Hey, fish stick. Don't touch anything.
- Abe Sapien: I need to touch it to see.
- Tom Manning: See what?
- Abe Sapien: Past, future. Whatever this object holds.”
Jeffrey Tambor - Tom Manning
Doug Jones - Abe Sapien

“You know how when you meet someone and you think you like them? And then, the more you talk to them, you see parts that you don't like?”

Angela Bettis - May Dove Canady

“I can't feel my legs! Oh, there they are.”

Richard Kind - Bing Bong

“- Data: Sir, does tactile contact alter your perception of the Phoenix?
- Picard: Oh, yes! For humans, touch can connect you to an object in a very personal way, make it seem more real.”
Brent Spiner - Data
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard

“Even with two eyes, you only see half of the picture.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Odin

“In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert De Niro - Sam "Ace" Rothstein

“- John Klein: What do you look like?
- Indrid Cold: It depends on who is looking.”
Richard Tiffany Gere - John Klein
Bill Laing - Indrid Cold

“Who can take us seriously when we are so far from who we once were? Our strange behavior and fumbled sentences change other's perception of us and our perception of ourselves. We become ridiculous, incapable, comic. But this is not who we are, this is our disease.”
Julianne Moore - Dr. Alice Howland

“You know how someone's appearance can change the longer you know them? How a really attractive person, if you don't like them, can become more and more ugly; whereas someone you might not have even have noticed... that you wouldn't look at more than once, if you love them, can become the most beautiful thing you've ever seen. All you want to do...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ben Chaplin - Brian

Some people look at an impossible situation and ask "Why?". Others look at the same situation and ask "Why not?". I'm asking myself "Why bother?"; in a billion years, we're all gonna be obliviated by a black hole anyway!

Felicia Day - Penelope

“I feel like ever since I lost my phone... my other senses have kind of heightened.”

Jack Black - Bethany

“One shouldn't leave this life without a sense of completion.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“- Holly: You're fighting the forces of evil that none of us can see without sunglasses.
- Nada: Take a look.
- Holly: If you want me to look through your sunglasses, I'll look through your sunglasses. If I don't see what you see, I'm going to see it anyway.”
Meg Foster - Holly
Roddy Piper - Nada

“I believe we are puppets with perception, with awareness. Sometimes we can see the strings. And perhaps our awareness is the first step in our liberation.”

Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“Just 'cause I'm halfway pretty, guys look in my eyes and think they know me. Like I'm their fantasy. I'm just a regular screwed-up person. So when you say I'm beautiful it's like you're not seeing me at all.”

Mädchen Amick - Lena

“To a considerable extent, we control how we are perceived.”
Sir Sidney Poitier - Mark Thackeray

“- Kyle: That's pretty cool, ya know, havin' a murder in our neighborhood and everything.
- Michael: Kyle, a guy just died and you think that's cool?
- Kyle: No, I don't mean cool, but it's interesting.”
Jamie Marsh - Kyle
Edward Furlong - Michael

“- Jill Bryant: I found it a bit melodramatic. That's only my opinion, my flatmate was moved to tears. So, there you are.
- Guy Hamilton: What does it take to move you to tears?”

Sigourney Weaver - Jill Bryant
Mel Gibson - Guy Hamilton

“People think we are crazy. But they don't know the joy of holding a man's beating heart in the palm of your hand.”
David Suchet - Jean-Pierre Thibodoux

“- Ted: Here in Barcelona, everything was swept aside. The world was turned upside down and stayed there.
- Fred: Has it ever occurred to you that maybe the world was upside down before, and now it's right side up?”
Taylor Nichols - Ted Boynton
Chris Eigeman - Fred Boynton

“- Alice: There's something down there.
- Jill Valentine: Where?
- Alice: There.
- Sgt. Peyton Wells: I don't see anything.
- Alice: That doesn't alter the fact that there is something down there.”
Milla Jovovich - Alice
Sienna Guillory - Jill Valentine
Razaaq Adoti - Sgt. Peyton Wells