Unconscious Action Quotes

I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.

Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.

Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.

It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

A lot of times, my best games are when I'm not even thinking.

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.

I have no idea what I did. I heard people talk about dead leg, shake, change of pace and all that, but I did things without thinking about them.

The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, "What'd I do? What'd I do?" And he said, "Whatever it is, go back and do it again."

If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.

Most of the time I'm really not aware of what I am doing. I'm just so locked into the moment.

Grip pressure - not mechanical flaws - is the biggest factor when you're nervous. You unconsciously grip it tighter, which keeps you from making a smooth swing with a natural release. Keep your grip pressure light, and you'll be surprised how much your mechanics stabilize.

When I play, I'm so in the moment that I can't really remember what happened afterwards. It's a rare experience for a thinking person like me.

A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard.

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

When you're out there thinking too much, that's when you can throw the ball away a lot of times. Just play. When I don't think, I have fun.

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing would finally become automatic. It would not, however, be an act of recognition or deference on his part, till he did it with a certain end in view - as having a certain meaning.