Forced Behavior Quotes

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

What I really mean is that actors do the interview process because they have to. It's a good bargain: If I can do this part then I'll sell it. I just wish it wasn't me who had to do it because it feels very unnatural.

I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.

The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.

I'm not very good at being a performing monkey.

The pressure of TV can force people to do odd things.

You never want to be forced to do something. But the world around you starts to influence you in ways you never expected.

He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.

Why am I hopping around like some trained dog trying to please people I hate?

The government should not have the right to force you to participate in some type of behavior that is going to conflict with your conscience rights, and if it does or potentially does, you should have the ability to have access to courts, and currently, that's not necessarily the case.

I don't like the idea that you're supposed to woo someone by doing things you wouldn't want to do on an everyday basis.

An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

When you're relaxed, the crowd can see it. They can feel it. They can tell when you're being real, or they can tell when you're forcing it.

In order, in order to enforce you can't force people to act right toward each other. You can't force, you cannot legislate heart, conditions and attitudes.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.

You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.