Quotes About Behavior

Too often, the public can fall into the trap of investing when stock prices are rising, not dropping.

The mere acknowledgment that 'God is watching' can act as a trap, fueling bad behavior, corruption, and guilt, all remedied by God's forgiveness. No personal responsibility is needed - someone on the outside sees whatever we're doing and makes it all OK.

One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.

I don't like the trash talking too much. When my opponents say something, for sure I respond, I say something, too. I don't start the trash talk.

Let's be clear about what an oik is, it is somebody from humble circumstance who behaves like trash. I am friends with many people from humble circumstances.

It's amazing to me how people throw stuff on the ground right next to a trash can. That drives me crazy.

Trash talk is poisonous and a bad habit!

I don't like when people talk trash and then they get the W after and they feel like they did something. I don't like that feeling.

I haven't done no trash talking. And, I don't do trash talking.

Childhood trauma is really what puts the rocket fuel behind addiction.

I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time, is really the stuff that interests me.

Whenever I'm traveling, I see so many auto drivers spitting on the road, and it disgusts me to no end.

My son is an inspired child, a very positive and happy child. The year he was born, he travelled 13 countries with us. I still remember he was so well behaved that the flight attendants used to thank him!

Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven.

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

We teach people how to treat us.

Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.

If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

To be honest, I am a really simple person, and most of my friends are not from the industry. I am most comfortable with them. They don't treat me as an actor, and neither would they tolerate me behaving like one.

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.

You treat an idiot like an idiot.

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.