Quotes About Restraint

I couldn't afford to be offended.

Once you almost said—to a sneaky fellow from the Daily News, who was inquiring—you almost turned to him and said, Motherfucker, I am music. But a lady does not speak like that, however, and so you did not.

but that coldness stopped up the sentence in my mouth. "What

She didn't really believe in the possibility of making good things happen with the sheer strength of your desire for them. If anything, it seemed to her, the opposite was true. The moment you wanted anything too fervently, the moment you yearned, the universe gazed with disgust upon your mewling and withheld. To get things, you had to be careless about them, the way that Rosa was.

Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon—for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you—and pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her.

Cudjo meetee de people at de gate and tells dem, "You see de rattlesnake in de woods?" Dey say, "Yeah." I say "If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him? Same way wid my boys, you unnerstand me. If you leave my boys alone, dey not bother nobody!

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

While criticising, one must not abuse.

I don't think practitioners should necessarily be advertising their work.

I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.

Bubba, in my old day I party on the road with all my friends. Now, I respect my family I respect the world and I don't do anything anymore.

There's nothing you can't tell to an audience, because they're all people who've had lives. The only thing they don't want to watch is someone who's really angry or out of control.'

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

You just have to play it cool. You don't want everyone to know you're an amateur.

I'm ambitious but not overtly so.

You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

I control my anger.

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

It's amazing to me how often the answer to making something sound better is to play something less.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

I'm not an ascetic.

La hardiesse du vrai s'élève à des combinaisons interdites à l'art, tant elles sont invraisemblables ou peu décentes, à moins que l'écrivain ne les adoucisse, ne les émonde, ne les châtre.

But it is best to let sleeping facts lie.