Nik Kershaw Quotes

My work is about the behaviors that we all engage in unconsciously on a collective level. And what I mean by that, it's the behaviors that we're in denial about and the ones that operate below the surface of our daily awareness. And as individuals, we all do these things, all the time, every day.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

To be honest, sometimes I'm horrified because you don't really know what you look like. If I really knew what I was doing on-screen, I would try to stop doing it.

Most of the time I'm really not aware of what I am doing. I'm just so locked into the moment.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.

We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.

People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.

Things that people are doing constantly but aren't thinking about. That's the ultimate 'Portlandia' concept.

I think I have a heavily compartmentalized brain, which means that certain routines are simply running without me realizing it.

She sleepwalked from moment to moment, and whole months slipped by without memory, without bearing the faintest imprint of her conscious will.

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

One study says that 90 percent of our everyday behavior is based on our habits. . . That means how we treat people, how we spend our money, what we watch, what we listen to - 90 percent of the time, we're on autopilot. We do what we've always done.

Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Weirdly, I didn't even know that I said 'yah' all the time.

I always forget about some of the things I've done, because you do 'em, and sometimes they don't come out, and... most of it's almost like daily chores or something. You check it off your list, and then it's gone.

We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.

I'm not always a rat. Sometimes it just comes out.

I basically shop in my sleep!