Quotes About Restraint

I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people.

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.

In life, you have to keep certain parts of yourself in check because you want to be a decent human being. But one of the guilty pleasures of acting is that sometimes you get to let a little something out that you don't in life because it's not right.

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

I don't write poems. I don't give flowers to girls... yet.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

There is a bearing which comes from having a little bit of something withheld. In acting classes, they always say don't reveal 100 percent: it's much more interesting.

My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances.

I'd behave savagely if I had access to Bjoerk's closet.

I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far.

When I am really angry, I clam up, go cold.

I've collected a lot of things throughout my life, and I think that's more being a hoarder than being passionate about them, and so I've tried to stop that.

I have never chosen to comment on any piece of news about me.

People should say 'no comment' more often. No comment! I love no comment. Let's have more no comment.

I am not going to comment on what I did or did not say back in the late '90s.

I don't want to comment on other film stars.

Well, in my job, I avoid political commentary.

If I played today, I'd stay in trouble. I'd be in the commissioner's office all the time, I guess. I'd be everywhere - including where I wasn't supposed to be.

I feel like the Roses were a great group, but I never wanted to try to do it again. I knew I couldn't get a band that would compare to the Roses, that would have an impact like the Roses.

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.