Sebastian Lelio Quotes

Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.

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.

I know how to look after myself.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

I need to learn to be more assertive.

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

I wasn't very good a communicating as a kid. I wasn't very good at speaking my mind, and I went through some challenges as a kid with my family, as we all do.

I didn't know how to get along with others. I didn't even know how to be in the same room with other people. Then, after a while, you learn.

I'm not aggressive enough.

I try not to hear anything negative about me, and if I do hear it, I try to block it out.

I have that weird thing where, if someone confronts me, I just get as bold as possible.

Teach your kids emotional intelligence. Help them become more evolved than you are. Explain that, for instance, not everyone will like them.

I didn't know how to act, but I was open to learning. I was not delusional that looks would help me sail through.

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.

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

I'm not that smooth.

I really don't care what people think of me. I've got my family. I've got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don't go around thumping people.

My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.

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

I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

I always knew I was different and that people had opinions about me. I guess I learned as best as I can to shield out a lot and live my life from within.

I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.