Paulo Coelho Quotes

It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.

I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip.

I never utter my real feelings about anything. My lighter, superficial side will always be too quick for the deeper side of me, and that's why it always wins.

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

There's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions throughout the years. I try to have the same demeanor each and every day.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

I like the idea of contained emotion because I grew up most of my life feeling that way. As an adolescent, people would always say I was not expressive, and they always made the mistake of thinking that I didn't feel anything because I didn't react to things.

Men are not usually forthcoming in the expression of their emotions.

How a character hides his feelings tells us something about him.

I'm not too big on feelings.

I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.

You hear people say, 'Well, I was going to say this, but I knew I couldn't get through it without crying.' Well, like, think of all the great things we didn't hear because of that.

We Finns don't show much emotion but it doesn't mean we don't have any.

I'm not an emotional person. I don't use the emotion train that much. I just use the happy card.

I'm mostly a quiet person by nature and don't like letting my emotions come out on the field.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?