Quotes About Behavior

When a director narrates a character, I find it normal to ask questions about the character's background, mood swings, eccentricities, behaviour... I do this to make my performance relatable. Directors who don't know their characters well find it difficult to answer these questions and, hence, find me annoying.

It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

People aren't inherently sympathetic.

As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?

Human rights are standards of behavior that are inherent in every human being. They are the core principles underpinning human interaction in society. These include liberty, due process or justice, and freedom of religious beliefs. I find little sympathy with efforts to try to equate Internet access with these higher, fundamental concepts.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.

I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.

The guy is looney,' Belle said thoughtfully, 'but also generally polite. Polite is always worth something.

Miriam says that sometimes, when we don't want to 'look hard at our behavior,' we look hard at everything else instead...

He is every other inch a gentleman.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

No matter what you say you believe, people can tell what's important by the way you act. And your behavior will affect what they believe.

The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.

Yes, my buggy is outside and my horse has been acting up. I wondered if you could come rub its skull and tell me if it's got a bad case of stubborn, or if it might be indigestion?

Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.

Of all sexual aberrations perhaps the most curious is chastity.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.