Quotes About Inhibition

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

I would like to believe that I still am a shy person; I am very introverted. I have a problem communicating.

You don't want to inhibit cell division. You want to inhibit cell division in the cancer cells, and even that is not really where you want to do it. You actually want to destroy the cancer cells, which is a different matter altogether. Just stopping them isn't enough - you really want to kill them.

I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.

I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.

I know you will laugh at me, he replied, but I really can't exhibit it. I have put too much of myself into it.

Hay muchas cosas que abandonaríamos si no temiéramos que otros pudiesen recogerlas.

Dicere quae puduit, scribere jussit amor

I could see exactly what must have happened. Insert a liberal dose of mixed spirits in a normally abstemious man, and he becomes a force. He does not stand around, twiddling his fingers and stammering. He acts. I

The man was goggling. His entire map was suffused with a rich blush. He looked like the Soul's Awakening done in pink.

And each year, I lose a little bit more of what made me special as a kid. I don't think as much or question as much. I dare nothing. I put nothing on the line. Even my passions are now frayed and pathetic.

All my life I've wanted to tell people I love them. Fear usually held me back, that they wouldn't care, or they wouldn't hear, or they would take too much from me once they knew.

I'm afraid of sympathy as if it were a collar, tightening.

El hombre llega mucho más lejos para evitar lo que teme que para alcanzar lo que desea.

Meditating an action is different from doing it. To do, there is a doer, a self-conscious 'someone' performing. But when you meditate an action, you've already released attachment to outcomes. There's no 'you' left to do it. In forgetting yourself, you become what you do, so your action is free, spontaneous, without ambition, inhibition, or fear.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

A writer afraid of her own subject- whatever it might be- is a frozen creature, trapped in the inessential. Diminished.