Claire Foy Quotes

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

I don't cry America. I do not cry. That was a once in a lifetime event. I do not cry, do you understand? I don't cry, okay?

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

I like working emotions that can take you beyond your life. And yet you have to resist them in order remain within your life. Otherwise, you're burned. I like that fight. It's more of a fight with yourself.

I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder-how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest.

The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains. Victims repress because they are afraid to show the emotions, afraid to say what they want to say. To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later. That is why warriors are impeccable.

Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient. I'm not as strong as I might be but I'm patient.

Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

I was never, ever once angry in the ring.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

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.