External Views Quotes

Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular perspectives on your work, and it's enlightening sometimes to know that non-writers and readers out there have certain assumptions about everything that I both want to keep in mind and want to forget about why I write, and about the connection between me as a private person and the stuff that I think about on the page.

Is it to be imagined that an ordinary citizen or even an Assemblyman from Rhode Island in estimating the policy of paper money, ever considered or cared, in what light the measure would be viewed in France or Holland; or even in Massachusetts or Connecticut?

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

It would be irresponsible for me to comment on somebody else's opinions.

All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?

Being an actor is fantastic because you get to live your dreams and all of that, but I always think it's slightly irritating when you hear from the outside world, and people are like, 'Yeah, well, if I was an actor, and all I had to do was look good, I could be that ripped, too.'

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

There are a lot of people who give you their opinions on what to do.

I feel like no one really gets to see, but, people are always talking about how they think our family dynamic is pretty cool.

Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in the books.

I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.

It's funny how people fantasise about your life sometimes. But it's so much quieter than they think.