Penelope Wilton Quotes

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

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

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

I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.

I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

Generally speaking, I think it's a good idea to stay conscious of any kind of energy or emotion that you're generating, whether it's at the end of a work day or just in your everyday life.

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

You need to know that you cannot control your feelings, and you cannot control your feelings about your feelings, but, as best as you can, intellectually understand that your feelings are valid and they're okay and don't try to stifle them or feel shame about them.

I'm very sensitive - I'll cry during every movie or commercial - but when it comes to my own feelings, I don't really think about them that much unless I'm making music. Otherwise, I'm either checked out or laughing because that's how I do regular stuff. I have a hard time talking about my feelings.

I think I've always been regarded as a mentally strong person and a tough character, but it took me a while to reach a point where I realised that internalising your emotions wasn't doing me any good.

I tune it all out because if I let other people's stress get to me, then I stress myself out more than I need to.

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

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?

'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.