Quotes About Restraint

There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break.

You don't have to release everything you do. Some ideas need to just stay on the shelf.

For a film like Vettaiyaadu Vilayaadu, I was particular that nothing should be revealed prior to release.

I don't like hitting people in the face.

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

You can't hit someone if they're holding on to you.

Fear is such a huge thing that holds us back.

When you're in a hole, stop digging.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

We have to be able to protect the homeland, and we have to be able to restrain evil in the world.

You never toot your own horn.

I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

I behave. I lock myself in my hotel room every night.

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.

The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it's near. Midtongue.

I was already tired of talking, and I'd said very little.

Libby wasn't a big talker - Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I hate spaghetti. I hate you. Like her mother, she had no poker face. No poker mood. It was all right there. When she wasn't angry or sad, she just didn't say much.