Anna Chancellor Quotes

I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life.

I need to control my mouth.

From time to time I might push a little bit too hard and I have got to be a bit more careful.

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire.

I used to think it was good to kind of work within your limitations.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

Protect me from what I want.

I have a very addictive personality, so I'm even careful about wanting more of anything than I need - even chocolate.

The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded.

I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.

I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

The ego is not master in its own house.

A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

I struggle with control.

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.