William Ivey Long Quotes

I used to get so nervous and upset at stuff... I'd always be angry.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

I can't control my frustration.

We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!

I just sort of lost my head for a little while.

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.

Sometimes, life just gets to me where I just get so frustrated to the point of tears. If my blood sugar drops too low, then I will get upset about anything. If too many things happen in a row, especially being on tour and getting ready to release all of these emotions into the world - I'm just an emotional person in general.

I wanna be bad sometimes - I wanna rip everything apart, -but it comes on less and less. Doing all this music stuff is very good for it.

I used to be angry all the time and at everybody. I would get really violent.

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

In one day, I have times where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

I struggle with control.

I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control.

The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?'

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.

The thing I remember most about having a tantrum is not the rage during the tantrum, but the being freaked out afterwards, and embarrassed, and guilty. It's scary to lose control of yourself.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.