Andy Warhol Quotes

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

You never can expect what people's reactions are going to be. You can only hope that everyone feels the way that you do.

The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

You meet people, and you're like, 'I don't know how I feel about you,' and someone does something surprising that changes your mind. We're interesting creatures; we're nuanced, complicated and layered, and we make all sorts of choices.

We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

You're always running into people's unconscious.

I find people confusing.

Mind not only what people say, but how they say it; and if you have any sagacity, you may discover more truth by your eyes than by your ears. People can say what they will, but they cannot look just as they will; and their looks frequently (reveal) what their words are calculated to conceal.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

You never know how people are going to respond.

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

It's always funny to find what people's button is.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.

I feel like people are actually just built differently, have different chemicals going on in their goddamn brain.

People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

Finding the physical aspect is important to me because that is often how we read people in everyday life.

My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who like what they like more than they don't like what they don't like and, in contrast, those who don't like what they don't like more than they like what they like.

Sometimes people's reactions tell more about themselves.

There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance, you might snap your fingers and grin to demonstrate that the music had charms that could soothe your savage breast. If you were employed as a spy, you might snap your fingers and grin in order to deliver a message in secret snapping-and-grinning code.

If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.