Lee Radziwill Quotes

I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives - a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay.

I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip.

It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.

We must be amusing at all times and sneer at those who express their real feelings; it's dangerous for a tribe to allow its members to show their feelings.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.

I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and when I was a kid, I would try to hide it. It wasn't something a kid in Oaklyn, N.J., did. So I have these weird hang-ups about emotions.

I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.

I was told not to cry as a kid.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.

I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

There's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions throughout the years. I try to have the same demeanor each and every day.

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

Men are not usually forthcoming in the expression of their emotions.

I'm not too big on feelings.

I don't always show my emotion. You don't always get to see it.

We all are scared. First of all, as a culture, we're constantly told that if you start to express yourself or express your needs, you're needy. You're too emotional. And they put all these negative connotations on it. That has started since we were kids, especially for men.

You hear people say, 'Well, I was going to say this, but I knew I couldn't get through it without crying.' Well, like, think of all the great things we didn't hear because of that.

We Finns don't show much emotion but it doesn't mean we don't have any.

I'm not an emotional person. I don't use the emotion train that much. I just use the happy card.