John Leslie Quotations

(McCartney) came here about a year or two ago just as a visitor -- we take paying visitors -- and he had a look around,

This ordeal has been made all the more difficult because of how much it has upset my family, particularly my mother.

I like to entertain. This role was the opportunity to try something different and see if I was any good at acting. I really believe in trying new things and pushing myself.

I usually end up having to owe a little money so why not pay at the last minute? It is hard to get things done early for me.

When everything becomes exploited-not for the information given but for the pure sake of advertising-then you think of these things in a very non-artistic way. But when the senses are let go, people become very creative. And the most creative thing people can do-non-artists I'll say-is get in touch with their feelings through sex.

A painting... is just one image. It allows you to elaborate, dwell on that one picture, go off on it because no further images are forced upon you. But the motion picture is always changing. So what you have to do is create some kind of eye field, an abstract form in a literal sense that tries to emulate what the brain is perceiving, not what the eye is seeing.

We think we think in a very literal way, but if you really ponder it, you don't think in a literal way. You're seeing in a literal way, and you're going from point A to point B, but if you really consciously think back at what was going through your mind when you went from point A to point B, you'll find that it's a very abstract process.

I can't really go and study for three years, so I'll have to get as much on-the-job training as possible. They've given me lots of little tips that might take months to learn, such as how to project my voice.

Everything happens for a reason, although I'm not sure what that reason is yet.

When you work in television it's all about you, the camera is on you and the autocue is counting you in. The person I am on TV is the same person I am in real life, but acting means playing a completely different person.