Julian Ovenden Quotes

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.

That's me, I'm emotional.

We're not whole people if we're just one emotion. On any given day, you can be happy, sad, angry, and so on... As you mature, you just learn to deal with each one of those emotions.

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

Emotions fascinate me, just being able to express myself through acting. I love that. And I think, in everyday life, you're always trying to repress your emotions. Like if you're sad, you don't want to show it to someone else.

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There's no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because it's so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.

I am a very emotional person.

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

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

I'm a pretty emotional person.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

I'm an emotional person, a very emotional person.

When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.