Denis Johnson Quotes

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

I was never a bad guy, never got in trouble. It's just that I played with anger and I was aggressive or I really never smiled.

I know I get abusive, very abusive, when I'm angry.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

I do have anger management issues. Not clinical. Probably no more than most people.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry.

I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control.

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'

I have a terrible temper. I have absolutely no problem with getting shouty or a bit physical. It's not something I'm pleased about and it doesn't happen very often, but it's very much there.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

Getting mad only leads to madness.

I don't have a temper. There's no fist through the walls.

You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.

I used to be angry all the time and at everybody. I would get really violent.

I can't fully rule out that I lose my temper sometimes.

I had a temper problem even before I did this film, but doing 'Arjun Reddy' has made me more impatient.

Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.

I feel like we sometimes let our emotions and anger get in the way.

I would say I had anger-management issues, to be honest with you. But it was only on the football field.

Fighting angry and fighting mad isn't good.