Jim Webb Quotes

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

I find rage to be the scariest emotion as an actor, for me personally, to tap into. I don't like anger, and I don't like conflict particularly in my life. I like everybody to be nice and things to be easy.

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

Anger is so constructive.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

It's difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I've never said something mean just like that. I've only said things in retaliation.

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.

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

You see all the movies where people say, 'Don't fight out of anger'? They say that for a reason.

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

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.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

I've had no problem harnessing anger.

Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

I'm too mature to be angry.