Romola Garai Quotes

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

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

I was a basket case, you know? When I got mad, I threw clubs, you know? And if things weren't going well, I would walk off a course. I think I lost a little bit of respect, but hopefully I've gained that back.

Taking ownership of your feelings is so vital to getting better.

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

I spent 43 years of my life in anger and I know what it can do... Now I pray a lot. I do whatever I need to do to keep me out of that anger, out of that place where I can't grow and be better.

I don't know if I'm ready to know what triggers my anger. I just feel like I figured out on my own how to stay calm, how to enjoy life, how to be happy.

I'm not the perfect person. I'm not the most happy person. I get angry, and I get mad sometimes, but I try my best to control my thoughts. Because that flows throughout your body.

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

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

After 'Oz,' I've learned how to check out and not let that stuff get in.

In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go.

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.