Impressionability Quotes

Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.

My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more than anything. They're tiny and fragile and impressionable - and someone else's! As much as I hate borrowing stuff, that is how much I hate holding other people's babies. It's too much responsibility.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.

I'm just - I'm a child.

I believe that first impressions are very important.

The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distracted by trying to be totally, perfectly impressionable.

I'm impressionable, that's for sure.

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.

Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.

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

Number one - and I want you to emblaze this on your brain - you only have one chance to make a first impression.

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

I'm very impressionable: I get very taken away by stories and certain feelings. With writing, sometimes I want to feel like a character.

Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.

How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

My belief is you have one chance to make a first impression.

this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces

Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.

If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I'm a big sponge. You can't copyright an aesthetic.

Particularly when you're young, you're terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.

I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min

I had this ego that was unstable. If you said anything about me good or bad, it really went to my head.