Jack Dee Quotes

I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much.

I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go. Call that a strength or a failing, whatever.

I'm not a guy that shows a lot of emotion while I'm playing.

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

I'm guarded; I don't talk much.

No one has got close enough to use or abuse me, and even if they did, I wouldn't get too emotional about it. The only thing I ever get emotional about is my family. I am kind to everyone but I trust no one. That keeps me from getting hurt.

It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

To establish personal relationships with the people you work with is stupid, because you never know when the winds will change. I try not to get too close to people.

It takes years for me to trust; I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.

What was it about Carolyn that made her so cautious about revealing herself?

I tend not to get too excited and surprised about things.

Sometimes, yeah, I wish I would have protected my heart a little more, absolutely.

I don't take anything personal.

When I date different guys, I just have to stay away - and not let myself fall. Because if I do, it's over.

I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music

Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.

Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules.

I've got ice water running through my veins, I'm cool.

I make it a policy never to appear surprised" - Dr Barlow

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself.

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.