Idina Menzel Quotes

There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.

It turns out I do okay just playing an angry self-righteous woman.

I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

We can't express ourselves always at the time we should. Sometimes it takes time.

I think I have a very nice demeanor, but at the same time, when pushed, I will freak out. I have a backbone, but I don't feel like I'm terrible about it.

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 don't want to be the angry guy.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

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

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.

Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.

I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.

I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well.

I found it hard to express myself in the world. I was very shy. I'm still very shy. But also, when I was a child, I could get very... I had this violence... I still get angry. But I don't break things; I'm not hysterical.

I was very shy and withdrawn as a child, but people know me as these assertive women. They are not me.

The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.