Particularly with Netflix, there are some series you just binge-watch. But I think with ‘Black Mirror,’ it’s a joy to have some space between each one.
I feel like looking in the mirror when you brush your teeth, yes, I see lines, and then I smile and I see things here and there. But that’s just, you know, you – that’s your journey, you know?
Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn’t mean he was cruel; there’s no evidence he kicked puppies just for the fun of it. Similarly, ‘Black Mirror’ likes to examine possible dystopias, but that doesn’t mean the show is cynical enough to endorse them.
We’re a direct mirror of the audience, and that shows how hip-hop has expanded. It’s no longer just an urban thing, and it’s no longer just an American thing, either. It’s a universal thing.
I agree with myself on 80 percent of things, but when I look at myself in the mirror in the morning, I still have inner debates about the right thing to do.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Every time I looked in the mirror, it was like, ‘You’re not good enough.’ ‘There’s always someone more popular.’ ‘There’s always someone more gifted in music.’
There is a page in ‘Diary of a Worm’ in which the worm tells his sister that no matter how much time she spends looking in the mirror, her face will always look just like her rear end. Any girl that grew up with brothers can relate to the merciless teasing.
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
Sometimes I gotta look in the mirror and say, ‘Hey, they’re still saying you’re too fat, but you’re here! They gotta take it or leave it.’ And in most cases, if they leave it, it’s all good because they don’t need to be in my space anyway.
True love brings up everything – you’re allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
Neymar has been an idol of mine since childhood. I’ve always tried to mirror myself in the way he plays, and I’ve also tried imitating some of his haircuts.
Children of color need a mirror to see themselves in. And then people who don’t have that experience, they need a window. They need a really personalized way to see what people who are different from them are going through.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the dumbest of you all?
You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you’re not that person, either.
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country’s pastoral myth.
The only person you need to be credible to is yourself. When you stand in front of the mirror and nobody is watching, are you happy with yourself?
I remember I went to audition for the first Daniel Craig Bond film, ‘Casino Royale.’ I was there in this Versace dress, and I remember looking in the mirror, and I couldn’t have felt less like a Bond girl if I tried.
Given the slow pace of Washington’s bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday’s problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.
The next time you check your moves in the mirror and reflect on how special you are, consider that somewhere in this universe or in another parallel universe, your double might be doing the same. This would be the ultimate Copernican Revolution. Not only are we not special, we could be infinitely ordinary.
During my adolescent years, I watched a lot of theatre. I had the habit of enacting every scene I saw in front of the mirror.
Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
I would watch movies on the couch in my house. If I saw a scene played by a woman or a man – it doesn’t matter – a scene I really liked, I would right away run to the mirror and repeat it.
To this day, the first thing that I do every morning is look in the mirror. I’ll tell myself, ‘Look at your skin. Look at your teeth and your smile. You are beautiful.’
‘Choli Ke Peeche’ and ‘Ek Doh Teen’ were my favourite numbers as a kid. I was a huge fan of Madhuri Dixit and would spend hours looking into the mirror and aping her expressions, believing that the mirror was the camera!
When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit.
I give myself pep talks. I have to tell myself how sexy I am – literally every day. I do. I look in the mirror and say, ‘You are so sexy,’ because everything else in my body is telling me, ‘No, you’re not.’
The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn’t know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won’t come through – whether it’s in the costumes if he doesn’t know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.
When I first started doing carpets, my stylist and I would pose in the outfit in the mirror, and we decide what pose works with the outfit.
I used to not walk out the door; I was so afraid. Everything from, ‘You shouldn’t be here,’ down to, ‘Girl, don’t wear those pants.’ I was so sad. I tried my best to not even look in a mirror!
I have cared for loved ones nearly all my life, so when I look in the mirror, I see a caregiver looking back at me. It began when I was 12 years old and my father became ill. Taking care of him took a toll on our entire family, my mother most of all.
When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn’t really looking at her shoes – she’s looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.
I think every woman, maybe every man, looks in the mirror and says, ‘Oh my God, there’s a wrinkle.’ So we’re all in the same boat.
I can say the one good thing is for every year where I grow up, I am kinder to myself, and I would say to the younger version of me, ‘I love my body, and I have learnt to stop looking in the mirror at the things I want to change.’
I have to look at myself in the mirror and tell myself that I’m beautiful, even if I don’t necessarily believe it.
The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.
The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.
Change the conversation you’re having in the mirror with yourself… if you hear someone who is saying something that is bringing them down, stop it. Don’t be passive. Actually, take action and say, ‘I wouldn’t speak to my best friend like that.’
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called ‘rock and roll.’
It took a lot of years of me on my own, coaching myself, to look in the mirror and love the reflection.
This confidence is not something that happens overnight. I have been working on it for a long time. I look in the mirror and do affirmations: ‘You are bold. You are brilliant. You are beautiful.’ If my lower pooch is really popping out that day, I look at it and say, ‘Pooch, you are cute!’
I don’t look back. I don’t live my life in the rear-view mirror because, if you do, you’re bound to end up wrapped around a pole somewhere.
I have always loved lipstick. For women, that love comes from our mother and grandmothers. It’s so natural for a woman to open up her mirror and apply lipstick.
When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.
I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn’t understand, and in a way still don’t, because when I look in a mirror it doesn’t seem funny to me.
There was time I was 105 kg, and whenever I used to see myself in the mirror, I used to ask myself, ‘What is this?’ So there was only one solution and that is controlling your diet and then hit the gym.
I think that there’s still a lot of prejudice going on. I don’t really think it’s only an issue of football. I think football is a mirror of society.
I think clothes should make you feel safe. I like clothes you want to go to sleep in. I sometimes stand in front of a mirror and change a million times because I know I really want to wear my nightgown.
I think that’s the great thing about all ‘Black Mirror’ episodes – it really leaves you with this feeling of not knowing how to feel.
Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don’t hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.
