Internalized Emotions Quotes

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

When you're a chill, laid back guy, you maybe have more pent-up frustration, anger, bitterness, than maybe somebody a little wilder would have.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

Even after he was gone, I still loved my father. I looked Norwegian, like him, with a long face, strong jaw, thin mouth, and flashing eyes. And, like him, I was verbal, easygoing, and low-key on the surface, and, deep down, proud, socially paranoid, full of self-loathing, and prone to rage at injustice.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.

I don't express a lot of things that I feel; I kind of register things.

Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again

It's a tricky one when you're playing somebody who is mad. There's often the big actor's question, if you're playing a part like that: do you take it to be an internalized thing, pull the audience in, or do you go full-out, and kind of present it as quite a shocking thing?

I've pretty much grown up to hide my emotions for the most part.

I grew up thinking I had very little value. It's not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all inside me.

Parminder kept her unwept tears locked tightly inside where they seemed to undergo an alchemical transformation, returning to the outer world as lava slides of rage.

She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.

There are things about which I don't even talk to myself.

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

Sometimes I feel a lot of things but I keep it in. I'm sure we all have this built-in radar of what we predict and when it happens, we feel 'I knew it'.

Stuff your feelings because feelings buried alive don't die. And that fear or that upset or that anger or that whatever it is, it'll turn into something inside of you. So you want to get it out.

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

I think people hold back all kinds of things. And in a way, they just want to be nice. They want to be civil.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.