I can only be instinctive in my reaction to Shakespeare.
One time I happened to use the word ‘denigrate’ onstage, and it didn’t get any reaction. So as I continued my act, the left side of my brain was fast-forwarding to see if I had any other big words coming up.
Any business, no matter what it is, lives or dies by the customer reaction it creates.
In minority communities there’s a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There’s a misunderstanding of what an artist does.
When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It’s not my business whether people like or dislike it.
Every time we play our music in clubs, there’s such a strong reaction.
You don’t know what people are looking for. What you know is what you feel like might be missing. It’s up to the people to agree with you or disagree with you, and you’ll know in their reaction.
The important thing is that my music is getting a positive reaction and that people are connecting with it.
I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
I can’t find anything wrong with Ashton Kutcher. I think he’s great. It’s odd that in America there’s a very mixed reaction to him. I think those that have only seen him on ‘Punk’d’ or ‘That 70s Show’ get him wrong. There’s much more to him than those characters or that persona he plays in those shows.
You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be negative. And, I think nobody who looks at it objectively would want to happen.
There’s always a knee-jerk reaction in our business to analyze and determine why something didn’t work.
When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.
Graphic novels are all about fantasies. Superman and Batman started it. It’s like a reaction to environment around you. You desire to do things in comic books or films what you can’t do in real life.
As an actor, you wouldn’t be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you’re doing.
I usually play the sort of hard-boiled guy who is forcing situations – I’m not usually playing the person in reaction.
I can’t imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
This is my definition of selling out: When you change what you do or do what you do as a reaction to someone else’s expectations or lack of expectations.
If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something – for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars – I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.
The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people.
You get fan mail and you see the reaction when you write someone back. It’s kind of shocking. You can make someone’s day and be a positive influence on the world when you’re in a position like that.
When Mahavishnu came out in ’71, the unbelievable reaction to the band was a real shock to me. It was a shock to everybody.
I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.
The thing you can’t let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn’t a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.
The Democratic Party has been a party of reaction – a party of opposition, complaining about Trump and the Republicans, rather than offering a lot of our own ideas and our own vision. And my view is that if Democrats want to start winning again, we have to start leading again.
The first ‘Bad Company’ was a kind of reaction to the Vietnam war – or at least a reaction to how Vietnam had entered the cultural life through films and books.
To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.
As an actor, when you’re winning the moment over, there’s a truth to your intention. You might laugh at it or you might cry at it, but I think your visceral reaction to it is a reaction to the truth of the moment.
Really, laughing is such a strange reaction to something. The idea of it is so bizarre, so instinctual, and kind of magical.
If I try to act cool and do things that get a positive reaction, then I’m not doing anything for the person I’m in the ring with.
When people ask whether virtual reality will be a real thing or just the next 3D, what I always say is, ‘Take a headset, walk outside, and the next person you meet, put it on them and see what the reaction is.’
What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I’m writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.
I’ve done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like ‘The Normal Heart.’ We could feel the reaction of the audience every night. It was visceral.
Of course, my sister and my dad, I respect as musicians and look up to them, but people kind of forget that they’re my family, so my first reaction isn’t always, ‘Let me see what my dad and Miley think about this record.’
In politics, as in physics, every reaction is met with an equal and opposite reaction.
When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can’t deal with the reaction by giving him money.
As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director’s job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.
When you’re onstage, you’re acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it’s like a wave.
Trump is, in part, a reaction to the intellectual corruption of the Republican Party. That ought to be obvious to his critics, yet somehow it isn’t.
You kind of know what kind of reaction a Yorgos Lanthimos movie is going to get.
‘Morsel’ is a perfect word. Forming those six letters on the lips and tongue prompts an instantaneous physiological reaction. The mouth waters. The lips purse.
Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the ‘Green Movement’ there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem.
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
The media’s apoplectic reaction to 2018 tax refunds displays a fundamental misunderstanding of the U.S. tax code and the very notion of what a refund actually is.
It’s been so nice for people to have a favorable reaction to what I’ve done. You work hard, and you try your best, and like anything in life, when people respond well to it, it’s like, ‘Well, good. I’m headed in the right direction here.’ So it’s been really, really nice.
I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don’t expect that, and it’s kind of a kick.
When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it’s all mathematics. Yet another might say it’s about sensuality, and so on. That’s all true. But music is not just one of these things. It’s everything all at once.
Often, lectins can get in the way of important cells communicating with one another. And when that happens, the body’s response is usually inflammation or some other type of reaction to toxicity, like nausea, diarrhoea, or vomiting.
Natural disasters are terrifying – that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was ‘Never Again.’
Wouldn’t you say that most of us are a reflection of or a reaction to the people who have been closest to us? I’m a reflection of my grandmother.
When I’m arguing, I’m competing. I’m trying to win a game. And if that’s what’s called for, it’s just a reaction.
I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, I’m not worthy – I couldn’t possibly, and so on and so forth.
After ‘Born to Run,’ I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who’d come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.
