Quotes About Restraint

My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn't strike back. It just wasn't in him.

The power to stay your hand is far greater than the power to strike with your hand and hinsa has no place in the society.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

I don't comment on everything; I don't comment on things I don't know enough about. I feel people should talk about something only if they feel strongly about them.

I struggle with control.

If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.

I never say bad things about my opponent.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.

I haven't felt like I ever had a chance to blossom into the player and the person I want to be in Orlando. It's almost like I've been held down every time.

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.

The truth is that Roy Hodgson and I never clicked because I was far too outgoing for his liking and I had to rein that in when I was in front of him.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

I don't usually prefer over-the-top action.

For a while, I Photoshopped too much. When you first learn what you can do, you really go overboard sometimes.

I am not overconfident.

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!

I don't believe in overdoing myself.

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

I'm not overly greedy.

I'd never be overly confident about anything.