Anna Faris Quotes

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

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

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 like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer... I do find it much easier talking to people I like about things we both like.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

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 really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.

I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.

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

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

There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.

I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call this trait, like a milk soup that boils over) the tantrum is not a built-in safety valve against madness or illness. ... The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive. How to isolate that good tension is my problem these days. Or, put in another way, how to turn the heat down fast enough so the soup won't boil over!

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.

I have some anger issues.

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.

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

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

I wanted to try and trace the genuine origins of 'Johnny' and how he so successfully staged this takeover of 'Michael Pennington.' 'Johnny' is a contradiction to who I am as a person. I'm not very good at confrontation, I have a tendency to internalise and to carry things around.

The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.