Fiona Shaw Quotes

If you don't allow your aggression or negative feelings to be expressed in your waking life, then it migrates into your subconscious.

Got an issue, get a tissue.

Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.

I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.

I've always internalized things.

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

I've played an awful lot of repressed people.

People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.

We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we restrict our mental lives to smaller and smaller areas.

As a black man, so often you grow up suppressing your emotions and sensitivity.

I agree that sometimes Michelle Obama can come across as angry - and anger is discomforting. We venerate that empty word, closure, wanting to seal off the pain of the past and refusing it admittance to the chirpy present. This, of course, is nonsense.

Men are not usually forthcoming in the expression of their emotions.

Shutting out the depression strengthens it. While you hide from it, it grows.

I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing.

I'm one of those people that, if I'm sad or depressed, I don't talk to people about it. I bottle it in.

A lot of times, men like to keep stuff in and that's the worst thing that you can do.

I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip.

The Cure wrote 'Boys Don't Cry,' and it's the same today: as a boy, you're not meant to show your emotions, but if you don't have a job or any prospects, you're going to be depressed, and it will be much worse if you can't express that. I hate the term because it's become a buzzword, but it's toxic masculinity.

Even with me, there are so many things I have bottled up.

What's interesting about emotions is that the more you try to control them or to bottle them up, the stronger they get. So, the more I try to stop being sad, the sadder I'm going to get.

I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. If I don't get rid of them, I'm not ever going to feel anything else.