Quotes About Reactions

I think we're addicted to being triggered

And you can be in real danger of judging people based on their reactions to what you love. If I recommend 'Modern Family' to someone and they return saying it wasn't for them, I finish their sentence with 'cos I hate brilliantly written and hilarious sitcoms.'

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

Whenever I open a movie, I go secretly to the theater and stand in the back and enjoy the moment. I laugh when people laugh, and when people cry, I laugh.

The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology.

Actors are very emotional, whereas sports people are used to criticism.

When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.

We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

Everyone deals with criticism in a different way. Some guys read it, some guys don't really listen to it, some guys try to stay away from it, some guys get angry about it.

Everyone has different ways of defending themselves.

Everybody handles things differently.

Everybody reacts to very difficult circumstances differently, we have to accept that.

I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I'm leaving office.

Actors don't really sit around discussing the parts they've played - just in case someone says, 'That was crap!'

There are going to be fans who say rude, disrespectful things.

My music divides people!

When things go well, people like everything you do. When things don't go well, people look for 1,001 explanations, and they don't understand you're a human being.

In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.

A couple of girls I've signed autographs for have just cried or broken out into tears.

I think sometimes people expect people to burst into tears. But, I think sometimes emotion, as I've seen, shock, can have a lot of different manifestations. Sometimes it's tears and sometimes it's just complete stoicism.

Self-control is needed in the age of technology. Folks have to apply their sense in reacting to different things. I don't appreciate perverse and venom-spewing mindset.

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.