Tom Stoppard Quotes

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

I definitely have guys that I'm friends with that I have a crush on, and you don't want to ruin the friendship.

No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there.

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

I used to fancy Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I didn't tell him that when we worked together on 'Another Me.'

There was an assistant professor I kind of had a crush on, but I was far too awkward and far too nervous to ever say anything.

I watch people from the top of buses who don't know they're being watched. It's quite fascinating.

I'm a voyeuristic American.

There was a girl in fifth grade that I had a crush on that joined drama club, so I joined the drama club because I'm not an idiot, and I was gonna hang with her.

I've always been kind of a voyeur.

I used to follow people home. I just like being anonymous so much that I would follow people home because they didn't know who I was, and I could watch them. I know how that sounds. I could not exist but observe.

I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.

The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I'm not watching.

There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.

I can lip read, so I know what other people are saying about me - especially when I clock them in my rear view mirror.

My ability to notice that kind of thing, the sanctity of the bubble that you create, has not been so good in a way, in that I notice it concurrently with actually doing the thing. I always notice it in retrospect.

It's no good operating on eyes if your eyes are asleep.

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.

No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.

If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak.

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!