Quotes About Restraint

I'm not a person who wants to be the centre of attention or anything like that.

I don't really like being in the centre of attention.

I just try not to be at the centre of everything.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

Even though we are reality stars, I feel it is important to keep certain things to ourselves.

At dinner, I usually go off the chain a little bit and have whatever I want but within reason.

I knew I wasn't born to be caged and chained up.

If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.

I couldn't sit in a chair in an office all day.

I probably need to hold my emotions in check a little more, but that's just part of my wiring, too.

My ego has been in check for a long time.

I felt caged by my childhood.

Chill? I can't chill. I find it so difficult to sit still.

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.

I'm not going to try and sit here and be Superman.

Even a superpower has limits.

Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.

I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one.

I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.

But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football.

When you're dealing with long-distance relationships, it's a relationship played out over technology. When you're in high school, it's because you're not supposed to act on those impulses yet. So some of my favorite relationships in drama are based in people that can't really be together.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.

You can see how he changed on the surface. But at the core of it all, I think Superman has remained the same - a character with incredible powers but almost superhuman humility and restraint.