Mannerisms Quotes

• The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

  Fred Astaire

  Inspirational, Jobs, Athlete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

  Emily Post

  Feelings, Awareness Of Others, Sensitive

  "Reader's Digest" Magazine, Vol. 68, 1956.

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• There's nothing better than actually getting to watch the person and see his or her mannerisms.

  Jonathan Jackson

  Watches, Persons

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  Praise

  Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright

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• Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hands, Style, Execution

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.87, Ravenio Books

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• There are just some really beautiful people in the world. When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they're wearing - into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Smile, Beautiful, Eye

  "Behind-the-Scenes with Mary-Kate Olsen". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 11, 2009.

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• I'm not mannerist. I don't think I'm interested in mannerism. If I ever use it in a way, or if manner is like some kind of product of certain sorts of usage of different kinds of materials, then it's about involution or turning in on that.

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, Different, Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

  John Ford

  Simple, Directors, Film

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• I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction.

  Georges Braque

  Personality, Revelations, Should

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, Translation by Daphne Woodward, p. 265, 1963.

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• My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and the observer. To seek freedom through significant form and design rather than through the diversion of so-called free and accidental brush handling.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Expression, Design, Significant

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• I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don't know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it kind of stuck with me.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Careers, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Mixtures, Charming

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.136, New Directions Publishing

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• I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Bob

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• Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Trying, Quality, Levels

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• It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.

  Claude Chabrol

  Writing, People, Interesting

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• Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Nerves, Feels

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Murderers abroad: five complete novels”, Outlet

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• 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.

  June Allyson

  Husband, Wife, Roles

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• Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Spiritual, Men, Genius

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• I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

  Radha Mitchell

  Thinking, People, Feelings

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• I didn't drop into the mannerisms of another version of the character, but I guess I was pretty alert to that.

  John Noble

  Character, Versions

  Source: collider.com

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• As I've gotten older, my mannerisms are more and more like my mom's. Also, she was an educator - she's extremely passionate about education and children. I guess I inherited that in some way.

  Jenna Bush

  Mom, Children, Passionate

  "Jenna Bush: 'I'm living my dream job'". TODAY Interview, www.today.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I love Friends, so I try to bring Jennifer Aniston's mannerisms to my show.

  Selena

  Trying, Shows, Jennifer

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• As much as I love and respect my brother, Im doing my best to distance myself from him and kind of show people that, even though we do look similar and have similar mannerisms, we are completely different.

  Dave Franco

  Brother, Distance, People

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• Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation.

  Rex Harrison

  Needs, Mystery, Charming

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.

  J. B. Smoove

  Expression, Bigs, Facial

  "JB Smoove, comic and torturer". TheWrap.com Interview, www.reuters.com. January 20, 2012.

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