Quotes About Reaction

Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind

When I first released 'The One And Only' nobody knew it was going to be so big. I just thought, 'Oh, this is what happens when you release a record? Brilliant! Let's release another.'

I can personally feel the relief myself in my audiences when I bring up Obama because there was a lot of anti-Obama sentiment out there before the capture of bin Laden.

When we won gold I was expecting overwhelming relief, but it just didn't come.

Playing live is much more natural for me. The instant reaction and the feedback from the audience is great for me. I really relish it. And if you play blues-based music, it's not really academic music or recital music. It really needs a bit of atmosphere and a bit of interplay and a bit of roughness, and you really get that with an audience.

If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.

Somebody DM'd me like, 'Bruh, you remind me so much of Michael Jackson.' I was like, 'What? That's a bar.'

The remarkable thing about 9/11 was that journalism pretty much put down its badges. People didn't worry about reacting as human beings. People who weren't reporters reported. David Letterman was sort of a brilliant reporter for a second - but it was a way nobody had ever covered a story. They just presented what was inside themselves.

So many reporters ask a lot of crazy questions. The answers to most of these questions are so obvious, but they ask them anyway just to see what kind of reaction they can get out of you.

One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.

When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.

I'm a great audience myself. I tried to keep in the background while others were on, but sometimes I'd just get hysterical.

It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.

I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

Here I come with these images of black and white people, and a lot of people got angry at me.

We discovered that fruit flies alter course in less than one one-hundredth of a second, 50 times faster than we blink our eyes, which is faster than we ever imagined.

Acting is very immediate.

I'm afraid I don't look at reviews or anything like that, but you get an immediate sense from the audience that they've had a lovely evening.

Performing a play or a musical or something is obviously an incredible rush, but I don't think you get that immediate response like with comedy unless you get a round of applause or whatever.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.

9/11 was a hugely overblown event that only assumed its overarching importance a) because it was done to the United States and b) because of the way the U.S. reacted.