Sarah Lancashire Quotes

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.

Sometimes, if you have a lot of history with a character and a lot of affection, it's hard for you to do anything with that character. Like with Swamp Thing, for instance, I revere the Alan Moore run so much that it would be hard for me to do my own Swamp Thing. I care too much about the way it was done before.

It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.

An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.

I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.

I can't be objective about my work, because I am so involved that I can't see it as a product to be judged. I can't see it as an outsider.

Basically, whenever I watch my mother on screen, I never judge her as a performer; I always see her as my mother and I become emotional.

I would never say I give less to Roma than I do to Arsenal; it is just that the emotion is different.

Loving something doesn't make it a good investment.

It's very hard to be objective about something you're in, especially when you set it up against things that you experienced as a child.

The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.

There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for.

It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow more involved, your clarity of judgement suffers.