Observant Quotes

Acting requires me to be very observant, which means being able to sit in cafes for hours and watch people.

"Matilda is adorable, and beautifully observant and wise. Michelle an I love her so much. Becoming a father exceeds all my expectations. It`s the most remarkable experience I`ve ever had - it`s marvelous." (On daughter Matilda and being a father)

I want all of my films to belong to me. There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made. Which is why I want Sideways (2004) to succeed, to encourage other film-makers.

It`s a director`s job to tell a story and he`s very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that`s exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn`t understand but he told a wonderful story.

Luckily I have a very type-A personality and I`m very observant of my surroundings,I think that`s probably because I`m a woman and because I am an actress. I tend to watch what I do, and like any good actor, you constantly watch your surroundings and you listen to your fellow actors. I think that really helped me. Anytime I was on the set as an actress, I was always that girl who sat next to the camera and was like, `What does that do? What does this do?` And for years and years I was like that, but that was just me being curious. Luckily it paid off in the long run.

(on Ralph Richardson) Ralph is a remarkable man, shrewd, observant, warm and generous-hearted, once you get to know him. He is also reserved and cautious, never making a swift decision about anything.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

(Most writers` view of the New West is) either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it`s obsessed with anti-mythology, ... There`s not a lot of realistic, observant writing about the West right now.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

If people are seriously depressed, suicide can come up. People may say the whole world would be better off without me. That may not sound like a big deal at the time, but that can be a signal that something serious is going on here. Suicide is very, very preventable. Part of it is just being observant, listening to what people have to say and not pooh-poohing what`s going on with them.