Quentin Blake Quotes

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.

I need to learn to be more assertive.

I'm a strong person. I'm also very sassy and a little bit angsty sometimes.

I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.

I learned at an early age to be socially effective while practicing disappearing.

Teach your kids emotional intelligence. Help them become more evolved than you are. Explain that, for instance, not everyone will like them.

You need to be able to communicate your feelings. We need to be able to do that to feel empowered.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

I really don't care what people think of me. I've got my family. I've got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don't go around thumping people.

I'm a strong-headed person, and you can always tell how I'm feeling in that moment.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

I wanted to try and trace the genuine origins of 'Johnny' and how he so successfully staged this takeover of 'Michael Pennington.' 'Johnny' is a contradiction to who I am as a person. I'm not very good at confrontation, I have a tendency to internalise and to carry things around.

I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.

I want to exude strength and intelligence.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.

I'm not sure I have a natural gift. I think it's just that some people have an easier time expressing their emotions, maybe because of the way they've been raised, and I've always been expressive.

I cannot be more aggressive than my nature makes me,.

It took me to be 33 to start to know how to fight.

If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.

I wasn't very good a communicating as a kid. I wasn't very good at speaking my mind, and I went through some challenges as a kid with my family, as we all do.

I don't find it easy for me to talk about me.