Ron Livingston Quotes

The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

When they don't know you, when you don't have credits and they're thinking, 'I don't know this French guy,' your first five minutes are trying to seduce them, trying to get them on your side. And it's not easy.

A lot of times, when I interact with someone for the first time, I don't want to see the presentation.

You know, if you meet someone for the first time, they're not going to bite you.

There's more impact if you burn somebody with your eyes, look straight into him and let him know with a look.

Nothing is more important than when you see someone for the first time, and you get that feeling where you can't move or speak or do anything until you know that person and take a sense of who they are with you.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

If you're entering a room for the first time, do it the way you would in life - look around; see how they have the furniture arranged. If your character is meeting another character for the first time, meet them the way you would in life.

I don't like to look a man in the eye.

Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.

Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Move on over or we'll move on over you.

If you don't pay attention to me, I'm going to make you pay attention to me. I've always been that way.

Unfortunately, I found out when I was trying to like square up with people and face off with people and, like, try to intimidate them and I'm pretty non-threatening.

I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.

I dominate, and I break guys' wills. When they come to fight me, they know they're going to be in for a fight, and it's going to be a test of wills.

He stares at me, and I don't look away. He isn't a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It's my choice.

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

Stop playing verbal games with me, madam, or I shall go out into that ballroom, find your mother, and bring her here

Girl, don't make me put my foot in your ass.

But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.

They looked at me like I was some kind of threat. [Mick] Jagger really tried to put me down, but there was no way some crude, lippy guy was going to do a number on me. I was always able to squelch him. I found out that, if you stand up to Mick, he crumbles.

When I play against someone that's new in the league, I make him respect me. They may have heard about me, but now you get to see me actually in front of you. That drives me.