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All your mannerisms change easily when you have inch-long acrylic nails. -- Margot Robbie
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious. -- J. B. Smoove
I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings. -- Dwayne Hickman
I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality. -- Rich Little
Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms. -- Ralph Bakshi
I spent three days with Don King, and I interviewed 45 people. I studied his speech, his mannerisms. He invited me to a couple of fights, and I watched him. -- Ving Rhames
I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different. -- Radha Mitchell
It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people. -- Claude Chabrol
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable. -- J. Martin Kohe
One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the quality of their thought is very closely identified and analysed. -- Eleanor Catton
So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting. -- June Allyson
I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up. -- Kim Cattrall
A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore his brother's clothes, smoked the cigars his brother had liked, and imitated his mannerisms. -- Thurston Clarke
Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective. -- Daniel H. Pink
As much as I love and respect my brother, I'm doing my best to distance myself from him and kind of show people that, even though we do look similar and have similar mannerisms, we are completely different. -- Dave Franco
I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck. -- Nicolas Cage
With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you're not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot of times, if you're not in the framework of the script, you're just making everything easier so it fits you. -- Ray Liotta
When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they're wearing - into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves. -- Mary-Kate Olsen
I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first but it didn't work. And then I just let the spirit of the character grow in me and it just took its rightful place. I started to speak the lines and it felt right. -- Derek Luke
The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed. -- John Philip Sousa
We can get carried away with our heads in books, and although there's so much to be learned from that, I think sitting in a cafe and speaking with someone - whatever it is, their mannerisms, their choices, are just as valuable as any class you can go to. -- Rose McIver
Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look and mannerisms. It's a more difficult lifestyle being a model. I traveled all the time. Although, now I wonder, because I travel all the time for acting, too. So they both have their difficulties. -- Olga Kurylenko
The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they've sort of become routinized, so there's an awful lot of mannerisms and joke lines that are sort of there to trigger laughter, rather than give actors a chance to play a moment. -- Alan Alda
There are just some really beautiful people in the world. When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they're wearing - into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves. -- Mary-Kate Olsen
If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background, so it's like a ballet where you have to tell a story with just your body. I think that's really interesting to have to tell a story with just your face and your mannerisms, and I'd like to tap into that world. -- Sami Gayle
The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms. -- Elisabeth Marbury
I love Friends, so I try to bring Jennifer Aniston's mannerisms to my show. -- Selena
There's nothing better than actually getting to watch the person and see his or her mannerisms. -- Jonathan Jackson
When you're not in the game, you can watch. Certain players have mannerisms, and they do the same things repetitiously. -- Chris Bosh
Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap. -- Agatha Christie
I didn't drop into the mannerisms of another version of the character, but I guess I was pretty alert to that. -- John Noble
Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something. -- Helene Grimaud
Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners. -- Terry Pratchett
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When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
As I've gotten older, my mannerisms are more and more like my mom's. Also, she was an educator - she's extremely passionate about education and children. I guess I inherited that in some way. -- Jenna Bush

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