Quotes About Observation

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.

I'm always looking at film, studying myself, comparing and contrasting with film of the great linebackers to see what I need to work on.

To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject.

Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener.

I need to do psychology classes. That would be so interesting to me, studying people.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.

I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being.

It was like baptism by fire. There was no school for studying acting. You just have to take it upon yourself to learn from your peers. It's about opening your eyes, listening, and watching.

I really got the 'Rhoda' flavor from studying my stepmother, Angela, who's Italian, not Jewish. There's really so little difference between the speech patterns and family attitudes of Jews and Italians in the New York area, anyway.

I've been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet.

I've got to continue to study, and if it's not the plays, it's studying more film, studying more defenses, watching other guys across the league, see what I can pick up.

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

Watching routes and studying routes, you can learn stuff that way or you can learn blocking schemes on blitzes. You never know what you can learn just sitting back from behind and watching.

I have been studying receivers since I was in high school. I've been studying pros since I was in high school.

When I play characters, I like playing people who just comment on stuff, stand around and talk.

I've never done drugs. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old.

Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.

In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.

I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.