Richard Eyre Quotes

Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.

All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

I'm used to playing characters who have a lot to say but don't know how to say it.

People always think I'm not scared. I've noticed that whenever I feel stressed, everyone thinks I'm fine, and later, it's like, 'I was not fine.'

I'm not a tortured soul.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.

People think I'm all calm, but underneath I'm not.

You never know what is going on in someone's head when they you think they are leading the perfect life.

Yes, I think I am like the sea. I appear calm on the surface, but there's a lot going on within. Many a times, I may not react to certain things, but that doesn't mean that I don't care or I don't have emotions.

I have a tendency to freak myself out.

Often the people with the biggest smiles can be struggling the most.

Fighting was something inside of me that I didn't realize was there.

I think it's always interesting to me how we keep secrets from the ones we love the most. You could be so close to someone, but still there was something you can't express, you can't tell them, because it's almost too painful and too hard for you to articulate yourself, because you don't fully understand it.

People say nice things about me but they don't know what's been going on between my ears.

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.

The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.