Reaction Quotes

Intentions and actions don’t always align…so before I react I try to remember that.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they’re sort of larger than life and I think I’m still suffering from that reaction.

The audience’s reactions are more important: if people believe in the love story, it’s because they love how we’ve acted. That’s the most beautiful award. It’s very important for me, people appreciating what I do.

I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.

I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they’re spying on somebody who doesn’t know they’re looking at them. And nobody takes it seriously – you either enjoy it and get a laugh out of the reactions or not.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and watch me spark like a match tossed to tinder.

Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.

Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.

A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.

Master your responses to external events–don’t attempt to control them.