I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.
It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.
I'm very affected by what I watch and read.
That's the ugliest thing I ever saw.
To artist Peter Hurd, on seeing his official portrait for the first time:
The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.
People will feel the way they feel.
purple does something strange to me
People recognize me all the time. I think it's really nice. I don't mind it at all. It feels kind of surreal when people know who you are and I think that it's really cool.
I think I'm hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar - isn't that weird?
Anger is the quintessential individual-signature emotion: I am what makes me mad.
Like when I hear a beat, it might make you feel a way, but then it might make me feel a completely different way.
I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign.
Emotion operates, very often when you think about how you react to the world, you know, something is happening to you, you're simply going along and you're being confronted by different things, not necessarily very important or significance for your ultimate life, but you are constantly reacting to the world.
There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.
Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.
Being an actor doesn't mean that I can't react to what's happening around me.
I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.
When I watch TV, I'm embarrassed by some of what's on.
The way I reacted to 9/11 was I decided I didn't want to do any movies that are sad or critical. I decided I didn't want to make my living depressing people or making them go home sick, so I just decided I wanted to do comedy for a while and study it for a while. It doesn't mean everybody should do that, but that was my reaction.
An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.
I never thought 'Sodapop Curtis' would announce my retirement. I always thought I would be the one to announce it. I'm a huge fan of the movie, but that caught me way off guard. I can't explain it.
Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.
When people come up and tell me they're such a big fan, it's cool. But weird.
When I go to hotels, sometimes I find waiters and people who do not address me as 'Mr.' or address me as a normal guest would have been addressed, simply because my name is Maddy. I find that slightly offending, but I don't react to it thinking that maybe the name is so casual that people think it's a buddy that you are talking to.
I don't like watchingpeople get shot so I would be a little skittish about that - squeamish, but I must say, I don't think the argument that this is going to offend Muslims is a legitimate argument.