For the most part, the only contact that most Quebecers have with the world of Islam is through these images of violence, repeated over and over: wars, riots, bombs, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Boston marathon… The reaction is obvious: We’ll have none of that here!
If something evokes a strong emotional reaction in me, I need to push myself in that direction.
Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That’s why you need a strong line of communication… which includes laughter.
It’s just great that I can see the fans looking at who I am, Jorginho the player, and at the same time I’m really happy to look at them and see their reaction and feel their support.
I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to.
The claim that Israel seeks to annihilate the Palestinians is simply a lie. Israel seeks to stop rocket attacks and tunnel invasions, and as long as Hamas is dedicated to those actions, they can expect a forceful Israeli reaction.
When you’re researching something for a movie, you get a very different kind of reaction than when you’re researching something for an article for ‘The New York Times.’
Football is a reaction sport.
‘The Room’ has never interested me as a film. The reaction interested me.
I got the most surprising reaction was when I had bleached blonde hair with a black stripe at the bottom – all of the ends were black. That one got the most attention – good and bad.
‘The Wall’ is a reaction to ‘Edge of Tomorrow,’ where I was like, ‘I don’t need time travel and aliens to take a hero and pin them down in an impossible situation. I can do it in a much simpler way.’ And that was ‘The Wall.’
Tell a story. You don’t have to do a thousand things in two minutes when you can do one just as good and still tell that story with your face or how you land or your reaction. That’s a lost art. Storytelling is a big part of our industry, and if given time, you can do it properly.
My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids’ reaction to that divorce.
But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it’s a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public’s reaction. But i think when we’ll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction.
When I went to college, I came across MMA. My first reaction was, ‘No, I don’t want to fight. I just want to learn jujitsu.’ I didn’t know what UFC was; in my mind it was this violent, ugly sport. But when I watched my first amateur fight, I fell in love with the sport and thought it was beautiful.
After watching the shrill reaction from liberals to the George Zimmerman verdict, I am reminded about why I’m proud to be a conservative.
Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
If you said, ‘I’m giving up smoking,’ people would put on a parade. If you said, ‘I’m going to eat more healthily,’ people would say, ‘Good for you.’ If it’s drinking, the first reaction is, ‘That’s so boring. You’re going to be so boring.’
Sleep deprivation impairs everything from your motor skills to your reaction time.
Performing outside of a WWE ring was a very different experience for me. In the ring if you hit someone in the face, you get an immediate reaction. You don’t have that when you shoot a movie so you don’t know whether or not it’s good or bad until it’s cut.
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.’
You don’t want to watch a film for two hours that depresses you or makes you think so much it evokes a negative reaction.
I figure you’re only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I’ve always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.
I’d rather create something that gives people a very strong reaction than create a show that someone looks at and says, ‘Hmm. Fine.’
I was a novelist first. But in the mid-’80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, ‘You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.’
You know what matters? Touching people. Being a real person. Because when you’re in front of real people, they gon’ give you a real reaction.
One thing I have found over years is that if you change direction, the initial reaction tends to be very polarized, but as the music gradually filters through and fans start engaging with it on its own terms rather than comparing it to what went before, the appreciation and acceptance of it increases.
As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.
You look at John Cena – whether you love him or you hate him, he always gets a reaction. Roman Reigns has that same aura, that same ability.
Disney is a machine, and I’m grateful for it, but I feel like being part of that environment made me crave the reaction from other projects even more.
My best idea was to not accept my wife’s negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.
I’m not religious, but by nature I am spiritual. I’m an artist, and creativity seems to go hand in hand with spirituality. But I have a knee-jerk reaction against organized religions. Actually, I have knee-jerk reactions against anything that’s organized.
It’s human when you get the sense that somebody likes you or is attracted to you – unless you’re just completely repulsed by the person – I find that my first reaction is to entertain the idea.
My first reaction to the script is simple – whether I laugh or cry. I like to see a film from an audience’s perspective and that is my first reaction.
I’m competitive, and I think everybody knows that if you’re talking trash, you’re gonna get a reaction out of me.
I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America’s Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America’s Sweetheart. Don’t take husbands from America’s Sweethearts.
Once I got divorced, there was this knee-jerk reaction to get back in the action and date. I think there’s something wrong in that.
You got to have a lot of mass to be able to produce a lot of ground reaction force, to function off of the ground, to press off of the ground.
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story.
I love playing live, I don’t like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
My reaction when I hear the word ‘celebrity’ is, ‘Who, me?’ It doesn’t feel like I’m famous.
We talk a lot about having high-character guys and high-IQ guys, and I think that’s one of the characteristics of those types of people or players that if and when something doesn’t go their way, their reaction usually is to come back and fight harder, dig deeper, do more.
There are all these scripts where the women, if they’re working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who’ll kill you. It’s a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
It’s rare to find someone excited over jury duty. If they’re out there, I’ve never met them. Not a one. When the summons for jury duty arrives in the mail, how many people scream, ‘Yes!’ and run to clear the calendar? None. Our first and only reaction is, ‘Oh, no,’ quickly followed by, ‘How can I get out of this?’
Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, ‘Hey, come see my play,’ he’d say, ‘Sure.’ He’d see one, ‘Oh, good play’ – you know, very typical dad reaction.
It was tough: I had to kiss a man, and I got a mixed reaction from the black community. But I have to be ready to play any role, or I can’t call myself an actor.
I always question whether people are going to know who I am, and I’m always blown away by the love and reaction I receive.
There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you’re honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there’s other people’s reaction to it.
