“I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception...” — Jonathan Ames Quote

“I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.”

“I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.”

“I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.”

“It does not matter what others think, 'beauty' is just perception.”

“It really hurt me when there was this perception that I didn't want to play for Scotland. I was fuming, absolutely gutted.”

“Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.”