Monica Bellucci Quotes

And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?

I'm quite British in the sense of not expressing my emotions much. I save it for my songs. If you ask about a death in the family, or a lover, I will not be emotional. I'd probably answer with a smile. Because that's what we British blokes do.

I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.

What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

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.

Earnestness makes British people gag.

In fighting, if you get hit in the face, you don't show it. You can't show it.

I'm good at winding up British people, but Americans are slightly different. A lot of them are more stoical. They're harder to get a reaction out of more of the time.

The British people are extremely conventional. You don't always know what one is thinking or feeling because it is basically hidden. The British people basically let you see what they want you to see.

We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying.

I'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.

The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country.

I'm English. All we do is blush.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

I have not wept since the death of my parents," said Luxa quietly. "But I am thought to be unnatural in this respect.

It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.

When you're wearing an animal costume and something bad happens, your facial expression doesn't change. The animal is deadpan the whole time. If you're skiing in a gorilla suit and you fall, you just see a gorilla who has no emotion. It's just a stoic gorilla, wildly falling down a hill, out of control.

Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness.

Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.