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Quotes About Restrained

A man's style should be like his dress. It should be as unobtrusive and should attract as little attention as possible.
~ C. E. M. Joad
It was nice to play something that felt a little more muted or internalized in 'The Daughter.'
~ Geoffrey Rush
I'm understated in my approach.
~ Larry Wilmore
I'm not a guy who wants to push himself into the spotlight or stand out from the crowd.
~ Jan Vertonghen
AÈ™a cum îmi ap?rea acest peisaj cretan, aveam impresia c? seam?n? cu o proz? bun?: bine lucrat?, schiÈ›at? în puÈ›ine vorbe, f?r? înflorituri inutile, puternic? È™i reÈ›inut?.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
he was amazingly tight-lipped, even for a guy. He was guarded, taciturn, which was probably hell on anyone in a relationship with him.
~ Laura Griffin
What living and buried speech is vibrating here... what howls restrained by decorum...
~ Walt Whitman
I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
~ Albert J. Nock
I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.
~ Miranda Otto
I am quite stingy when it comes to giving runs away.
~ James Anderson
I don't like opening up in front of everyone.
~ David Dobrik
I am as sober as a judge.
~ Henry Fielding
In that brief glance Vronsky has time to notice the restrained animation that played over her face and fluttered between her shining eyes and the barely noticeable smile that curved her red lips. It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed itself beyond her will, now in the brightness of her glance, now in her smile. She deliberately extinguished the light in her her eyes, but it shone against her will in a barely noticeable smile.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.
~ Charles Kennedy
I am not an over-the-top kind of person.
~ Amy Purdy
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
~ Jose Bergamin
She says what she has to say, and no more. May there be many like her,
~ Unknown
I appreciate a subdued performance, typically.
~ Keith Maitland
It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.
~ Margaret Hamilton
I'm kind of a subtle person.
~ Lizz Wright
I like to be subtle, without being too obvious.
~ Chris de Burgh
I am not a particularly aggressive person. That's not Erica.
~ Erica Durance
The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
~ Damon Hill
I'm not a dramatic guy.
~ Rory MacDonald