Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.
Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.
If you're a stranger, and you've never met me before, I'll probably be more reserved and quiet. If you're my friend, you probably see the same stuff that you see me do onstage.
I'm not the same person on the court. I'm different when I'm off the court. Off the court, I don't need to be aggressive or anything.
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'
I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment.
People interest me a lot: why we are kind, why we are cruel, how we learn the difference, what makes us act in ways contrary to those we've been socialized with.
It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.
As a psychologist, I can tell you that there are people who look very good in a group, but they're very different in a one-on-one situation.
We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.
I believe that I am a different person off the pitch than I am on it. On the pitch, I am a bit louder, and off the pitch, I am quieter.
You have to be different on the field than you are at home.
In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally
No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.
I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.
A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.
Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
