#instinct

All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead. ↗

— Will Ferrell

#answer #comedy #funny #general #going

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight. ↗

— Will Ferrell

#approach #comedy #commit #doing #drama

You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France. And when George Bush Jr. got in, my instincts told me it was time to go - I'd felt that we had grown above that, you know? ↗

— Tommy Chong

#bush #country #felt #france #george

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

— Sigmund Freud

#constitutes #culture #disposition #independent #innate

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#always #fasten #hegemony #instincts #onto

I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#bring #different #explain #i #instincts

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive. ↗

— Julie Walters

#elusive #i #i think #instinct #learn

The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education. ↗

— John Engler

#complete #education #example #instinctively #knows

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts. ↗

— Omar Epps

#doubt #instincts #lot #make #tend

I know I have pretty good instincts. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#i #instincts #know #pretty #pretty good