Social Posturing Quotes

Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.

As a society, we have this perception that women are emotional. The research, however, tells us that, on trading floors, that poor risk rises and falls with testosterone levels, and these trading floors are 85 percent, 90 percent male, and these gentlemen tend, under periods of stress, to show off for each other. That's dangerous.

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

I'm not a virtue signaler.

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

I try to look cool. I strategize. Sometimes it's like - that's part of the strategizing, to make it seem like I don't think about it.

Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.