More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.
My inspiration is really very simple: I'm struck by things that I want to know more about. I really do react just as a curious person: who is this person? What's the story behind this situation? Why do people like this or dislike this thing?
You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.
Here's the positive scenario: that something has been going wrong in American society. You see it in wage growth, opioid abuse, many other social indicators, as you know. Sometimes it's better to get the bad reaction to that over with quickly while your civil society still is strong and you can react and respond and protest, and you know, four or eight years from now, make another decision, and maybe it's better to have that happen in 2017 than 20 years later when some of our problems are worse and our national mood is worse.
My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity.
I just watch a lot of different films and different TV shows. Really for me, it's just looking at how people react to different shows in different genres. For me, it's more a study of people than a study of acting.
It’s not stress that kills people, but how they react to it.
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made. . . (as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned. . . you would react to something all others might walk by.
Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
If you want to progress in your life and grow, act not to react.
The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.
By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can respond when action is needed, but you can be free, internally, of events.
As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value.
To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.
An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
True strength lies in action. Let the weak react to me.
In football, you're taught to react by being aggressive, taught to react with violence. If you can't separate that on the field and off the field, you're going to be in a lot of trouble in your life.
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
When you respond to life, that's positive; when you react to life, that's negative.