Quotes About Behavior

When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That's what I wanted to avoid.

Most people don't go to work and beat up a 13-year-old. It's a really freaky thing.

Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

I had to create some good work habits and attitude.

I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

An addict is an addict. If they're not acting out in one area, it tends to come out in another. I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate.

Christian sisters should not at any time dress extravagantly, but at all times dress as neat, modest, and healthful, as their work will allow.

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.

Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable.

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates.

Everybody has a mean streak in them, don't they?

If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.