I never thought I would get married and have kids. I thought I was going to be a gypsy actor, traveling all over the world playing the great roles. I ended up having a kid very young, and it put things in perspective. – Bobby Cannavale
Wonderful things happen when you turn 50: you change perspective. You ask, ‘Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What have I not done that I want to do?’ – Andie MacDowell
Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different. – Antony Beevor
It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I’m not planning to write a script; I’m planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there. – Alex Garland
From a male perspective, you don’t think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look. – Benjamin Koldyke
To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It’s important to keep perspective and do things other than for money. – Anthony Edwards
When I had my wreck, it really just put everything into perspective and really opened my eyes. I’ve always been one of those guys that thought ‘it will never happen to me.’ – Brantley Gilbert
Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views. – Barry Ritholtz
Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there. – Ann Dowd
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. – Constantin Stanislavski
Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls. – Adriana Lima
‘Cloverfield’ and ‘REC’ are great examples of movies that took kind of tired genres, the monster movie and the zombie film, and by filming them in found footage, it was a new perspective. It gives you a whole new take and helps you re-experience that all over again. – Adam Wingard
If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more. – Brian Koslow
I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it’s partly from an atheist perspective because I’m an atheist, and I’m just not really interested in religious-based questions. – Alex Garland
When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it’s just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
It’s difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what’s good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That’s the hardest. – Anthony Edwards
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. – Alan Perlis
You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone’s tired, things get on top of them. – Alan Cumming
The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important. – Brooke Shields
I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective. – Alan Alda
I think understanding is the way to gain perspective – and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them. – Alice Sebold
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. – Christopher Morley
I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things – the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner. – Aaron Koblin
It is always the case that when something emerges – which, of course, from the perspective of the former West Germany looks very different – then people say, ‘She hasn’t told us this yet’ and ‘She hasn’t told us that yet.’ I don’t know – maybe there are other things I didn’t talk about because no one ever asked me. – Angela Merkel
Any film that you see that has any progressive spirits that is made by any people of color or a woman is a triumph in and of itself. Whether you agree with it or not. Something that comes with some point of view and some personal perspective from a woman or a person of color is a unicorn. – Ava DuVernay
When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don’t. – Ariel Garten
During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it’s like a bubble. I don’t see much outside my own perspective. – Abby Wambach