Quotes About Reaction

remembered something my father had told me, about the comments I'd gotten after my bar-fight video had come out: When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you're angry, everything looks like a target. There are a lot of angry people in the world. And these days, they're all online.

The woman rolled her eyes so loud I could hear it.

You know I have trouble with colloquialisms, so I resent your shocked reaction.

Oh my God, what is going on? Did you just curtsy at someone?

Everything in Bela's life has been a reaction. I am who I am, she would say, I live as I do because of you.

Were her mother ever to stand before her, even if Bela could choose any language on earth in which to speak, she would have nothing to say. But no, that's not true. She remains in constant communication with her. Everything in Bela's life has been a reaction. I am who I am, she would say, I live as I do because of you.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

I think a lot of comedic actors, on their close-up they can deliver. But when it comes to reacting to other people being funny, that's work in itself.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

If people call your work perceptible, be it in positive or negative terms, do ask them about what made them draw that conclusion.

It's hard because there's a little bit of PTSD from when you're a struggling actor, working at a restaurant or living in a garage. There's a little bit of an inherent knee-jerk reaction to say, 'Yes, yes, yes, please just give me a job.'

People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message, because the best authors do not have obvious messages. These authors were disturbing to my students because of their perspectives on life.

Studies of social games, puzzle games, and brain-training games have shown they have little effect on the brain despite often being marketed as improving memory and reaction speeds.

When I am composing in a studio, I cannot gauge what the audience feels. Sometimes, good songs don't get the recognition because the films fail. But when you are performing live, the reaction is immediate.

Facebook is studying emotional reaction to things and bringing you fewer of things you don't engage with and more of what you do.

In high school, I started studying movies and not reacting to them emotionally.

We were playing a fair, and a few people were handing me stuffed animals and flowers, but one person handed me a paper sack. So I took all the stuff back to the bus. I put the sack in my lap and opened it, and a live iguana jumped out of the sack and onto my shirt. I screamed like a little girl!

A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.

The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.

The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do your job. I've had some audiences where I didn't care if they laughed or not because they were either too drunk or stupid.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.

My own perception of Malcolm was one of something that bordered on fascination because I was looking at him and reacting to him as a subject.