Topher Grace Quotes

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes.

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.

So when I looked at pictures and produced my calendar and edited the pictures, it wasn't just about looking at myself and thinking I'm attractive. I try to take myself out of it and get into the whole process of putting it all together.

As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.

I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of art. But I don't think a work of art can actively reject the person who's looking at it or reading it.

A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?