Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.
There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.
Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.
The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.
I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.
Some of my reactions are very Nigerian. I still believe that words are things.
We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.
I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.
The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.
Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter.
So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.
Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
Ritual may be vital to reaction, but it is also the life blood of revolution.
What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.
One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.