Neil Gaiman Quotes

When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

I don't cry in real life. I'm just pretty light and I don't get too heavy.

He said that black sheeps express everyone else's anger and pain. It's not that they have all the anger and pain-they're just the only ones who let it out. Then the other people don't have to.

I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.

I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.

To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put 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'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.

When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

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.

When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.

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.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

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

It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.

I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and writing.

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'm not too big on feelings.

I don't think it serves anyone to bottle emotions.

Emotions fascinate me, just being able to express myself through acting. I love that. And I think, in everyday life, you're always trying to repress your emotions. Like if you're sad, you don't want to show it to someone else.

In real life, I don't cry too easily. I go numb.

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

Black Rainbow' is about control and your emotions being repressed and controlled, and 'Mandy's' about all a volcanic eruption!

My ability to be emotive and cry... I think I'm so fearful of tapping that that I won't know how to turn it off.