Curtis Jackson Quotes

I'm not an emotional person. I don't use the emotion train that much. I just use the happy card.

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.

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

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

I feel like a lot of times when stuff is on my mind, I really don't show it. I know how to hide my emotions.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.

For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.

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

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

Sometimes, I have played something that psychologically sticks with me, that's opposite of where I am. I guess I have a lot of anger in me.

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 know I probably have a lot of rage in me that I don't show. But I'm not about to wallow in it or reveal it.

I was very sensitive, so when sensitivity has no place to go, it's often turned into anger or frustration.

I listen to my emotions. That's why I react once I get provoked sometimes.

I don't cry about anything.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor."

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!

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.