Quotes About Inhibition

As a teenager, you don't really have restraint.

I have always been running away from dance numbers. That's been my problem.

I get paid to not laugh.

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

successful humor breaks down the power structures that tend to inhibit tighter social bonds and interactions

diffusion of responsibility, in any form it takes, lowers the inhibition against harming others.

I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy.

I'm not so vocal. I try to get loud, but my voice will just crack or something.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

I never really sang for anyone, apart from in the shower or with my best friend. I was shy. I didn't want to take voice lessons. I knew I could sing, but I just didn't tell anyone.

When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?'

I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have in our heads, the voices that we have that say you better not tell that and don't tell that, and people will think you're not a good girl, and your grandmother's going to be mad at you and all of those things.

I was a shy kid, wasn't necessarily an extrovert, but I couldn't help doing voices.

Everyone loses when voices get stifled.

You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get into class, people kind of clench up.

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody.

Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know.

You could ask a lot of people in my childhood, and they'd say I was very prudish about showing off skin.

When I think of the things that I want to write, I can never say them out loud because I know how crazy they sound. I know what things sound like when you haven't actually worked on the script, so I don't go around saying some of these ideas because they just sound awful.

I gave up ballet when I was four because I was so shy.

I think the biggest learned behavior that I would love to get rid of is that little voice that tells you, 'That's stupid. You shouldn't say that.' And then five seconds later, you hear somebody saying the same thing, and you think, 'Seriously, what is wrong with me?' I think, in particular, a lot of women do it. And that's a problem.

I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.