Quotes About Inhibition

it's the fear that their creative endeavors won't live up to some external standard that keeps them from living a more creative life.

The most common reason we hesitate when presented with the opportunity to express ourselves creatively is our fear of other people's negative opinions.

No drugs, except maybe poppers.

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of his talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

Nothing is worse than the coarseness and meanness we perpetrate out of timidity.

But every time my thoughts reached this point, every time, my desire to speak would vanish. And so we remained precisely as we were, making no waves, at a standstill.

Siempre pensaba en ti. Pero me sentía incapaz de llamarte. Tenía miedo de que, en cuanto te lo dijera todo se hiciese real.

Non si diventa volgari per colpa dell'alcol: si diventa volgari perché lo si è già.

When little girls ask too many questions their tongues drop off!

playing small as they say nowadays, afraid of making others uncomfortable.

I've always been scared to do a play. I don't know why, because doing 'Happy Days' was like a play with three cameras.

I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.

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.

For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.

I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you. You keep it hidden, and the secret becomes you.

When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.

It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.

If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.

If you knew what you were doing, that it would hinder you, you wouldn't do it.

At the very time I should speak out I feel more than ever the impossibility of doing so.

You have to have an unlimited imagination, an unlimited restraint on your inhibition when you're working. You have to even dare to fail, even in a scene, whatever it is.

I think that all men and women both, particularly women, hold back on parts of ourselves because they don't fit into the traditional workplace model.

For acting, a two-week workshop helped me break my shyness and made me able to perform in front of people.

To the timid soul, nothing is possible.