Michel Faber Quotes

When I was young, I couldn't process emotions well.

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

I react emotionally to everything!

My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

Since I was young, I've been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

If you're upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.

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

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

I'm quite an emotional person. I cry a lot. I do not like conflict, so if I have an argument with my parents, I'll often cry. I become too emotional.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

Part of growing up is learning to live with your emotions; today’s shortcut is to believe whatever your feelings are, they’re justified.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

I was highly sensitive and still am, but as a kid I could tap into my emotional state rather easily.

Especially since I started studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment. I definitely think I wasn't very present prior to that.

I am very emotional, and I get really upset when any of my films flop. I also get hurt over silly things. That is the way I am; I can't help it.

How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there's a really important distinction to understand is that you can't completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don't ever make that separation for what goes on with them.

I'm very sensitive; I'm not moody.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.