Uncharacteristic Behavior Quotes

Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.

I announced my dissent in the Citizens United orally, and I stumbled in my announcement. I had a little difficulty expressing myself. And that was out of character.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

I hardly ever swear. So when I do, my husband knows it's extremely serious.

He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

Sometimes I'm really mean to someone who just hugged me. I never thought that I would be like that.

It was very nerve-wracking for me. I had to be drunk and have a threesome. I'm not that guy. Bobby Cannavale is that guy. But it was Vegas and things got crazy, and it happened. We go to Vegas to try to sign Elvis Presley and things get crazy. My character [in Vinyl] is stoned.

When someone keeps doing something, you say that that isn't him, he is just making some bad decisions. Sometimes those decisions reflect the person.

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.

Love can make even nice people do awful things.

I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.

Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun.

So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian.

It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.

On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped while they talk. This makes no sense at all, since Tyler has zero yap-zipping skills.

He looks like the good boy he's never been.

It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.

I don't want to show my pain. I resisted; I hesitated. I tried to be invisible, to pretend that nothing was wrong. It's impossible; it's not like me.