Brooks Koepka Quotes

I always come across like I'm looking serious, but I just don't like smiling. Honestly, obviously I'm different in person.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

When you're as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

I'm an ordinary Hackney boy, and I can talk to people.

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.

A lot of things I don't do well; I don't do warm and fuzzy well.

The more you can be self-aware and honest about yourself, the more you can cultivate that in other people.

Unless I can come in in the morning and smile, walk in the lobby and say, 'Good morning!' - if I am stressed - I am not going to do a good job. Everybody is watching us. They are feeding off of our energy.

In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.

I studied psychology in school, and I learned how to understand people's feelings, how to get along with people and relate to people.

I honestly always really try to get people to share their feelings. I always say to everyone that communication is key.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

I'm good at reading people. If I wasn't an actor, I would be a psychologist.

I think I am a pretty good at understanding each character of each person I meet.

I'm not actually as emotional as everybody thinks. The songs are super personal, but that's just one side of me, and I guess people just assume I'm some troubled guy who's constantly sad.

It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot.