A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.

Branding music as 'for the youth' is only an escapist tendency. Preference in music is only about restrictions of the mind.

We have a tendency in Quebec - and I include myself in this - to describe ourselves using the past. We're always nostalgic.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is the funny thing about you.

I love period drama as much as the next person, but there's a tendency to let all of the costume get in the way of the people.

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

There is a tendency in the media to simplify me to the point that I am somehow a tough guy. I think there is a lot more to me.

When we create female characters, I think often there is a tendency to kind of make female characters emotionally bulletproof.

Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

I might not do it again and again, but I would like to test waters which are considered forbidden for me. It is a human tendency.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

Honestly, I have a tendency to date dorks. Which means that a lot of times, I date guys that no one else would deem to be a hunk.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.

America has a tendency to chip away at you if you've been a success for a long time, whereas in Europe, they put you on a pedestal.

When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.

I think my tendency when working is to try and find what's lacking in my current project and then tackle that in whatever I do next.

As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.

My short stature may have something to do with my tendency to shout when enraged. How else is anyone going to hear me way down here?

When you're making a film, you have to make most of your decisions on the run, and there is a tendency to always shoot from the hip.

My tendency is to be quiet and to stay focused and in character. Not the entire time, but certainly to stay focused while I'm on set.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.

The first place I gain weight is in my rear end. I love my butt, but I have a tendency to get saddlebags there, so I need to watch it.

Whatever the reason for any one individual's tendency to gain weight, the only way to lose the weight is to eat less and exercise more.

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

When you have a film that's acclaimed, there's a tendency to go big or get serious or something, but I had an impulse to do the opposite.

Especially in this league, you can have a tendency to look ahead, but really, it's about one taking one day at a time, one game at a time.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.

People have a tendency to do that - to go the polar opposite of what they've done before if they've felt like they've done something wrong.

I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.

Your thoughts greatly influence how you feel and behave. In fact, your inner monologue has a tendency to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

There is a tendency to attack some particular group of people and scapegoat them, but this is not the right attitude to cope with epidemics.

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

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