Quotes About Reaction

He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

Your body knows how to fall.

I've turned myself inside out to try and avoid what happened today. You affect me in ways I can't quantify or contain. All I can measure is the effect, and the effect is that I am out of control.

When anger is in control, you get unintended consequences.

The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react

What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.

To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the actor can sense the reaction from the audience and quickly move on.

Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don't work.

W]hat makes a work of art 'good' for you is not something that is already 'inside' it, but something that happens inside you.

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.

An audience's or individual's reaction to my work is simply their reaction.

I gave him a smile. I was aiming for sweet, but he turned a shade paler and scooted a bit farther from me. Note to self: work more on sweet and less on psycho-killer.

Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.

I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.

There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting.

I react to stress badly. I handle it better these days. But I'm a very straightforward person.

My skin really reacts to stress.