Marjane Satrapi Quotes

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

There's times I blow my gasket. One thing I learned is I don't hold any grudges.

I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly, and I don't remember it long.

As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no more rancor left in her heart. She had finally allowed her negative feelings to surface, feelings that had been repressed for years in her soul. She had actually FELT them, and they were no longer necessary, they could leave.

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

In my own life, I have no problems letting out a good scream.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

I save the rage for the stage.

Just scream! You vent, and the body just feels good after a good old yell.

It's nice to let some anger out sometimes.

I'm a very placid human being. I don't want to kill anyone. I guess I have played a lot of bad people in my career, so frustrations or angst can come out in any given role.

Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.

I had to beat the bags, big time, I had to get out into the den and start screaming and move it through my body.

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

I didn't know it was anger until they told me that it was, like with destruction and all that. But I believe everybody should have like a room where they can get rid of all their releases, where they can do their releases at. So my room is a stage.

Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight.