Peripheral Quotes

(on seeing his face in Hollywood posters for The Last of the Mohicans (1992)) That was, and will always be, difficult for me. The work itself is never anything but pure pleasure, but there`s an awful lot of peripheral stuff that I find it hard to be surrounded by. I like things to be swift, because the energy you have is concentrated and can be fleeting. The great machinery of film can work against that. I have never had a positive reaction to all the stuff that supposedly promotes the film. The thought of it will make me hesitate to do any films at all.

I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who`s from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn`t actively shooting, there`s a lot of peripheral work.

But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

I did my first job as an actor and my first role was in 1978 in Rome. I did a play with an Italian actor named Victor Cavallo who worked with Bernardo Bertolucci. After that I was very much a part of the New York performance art and underground theater and movie scene, so it`s been quite awhile. But always very peripheral.

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn`t management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team`s mission.

(Still, such things) are all peripheral, anyway, ... The books are what`s important to me.

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.

You can see the difference. It helps with passing the ball and defensively, with their peripheral vision.

Squint your eyes and look closer. I`m not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I`m beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head. `Cuz some day you are gonna get hungry, and eat all of the words you just said.