Ivor Novello Quotes

I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.

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

I like the idea of contained emotion because I grew up most of my life feeling that way. As an adolescent, people would always say I was not expressive, and they always made the mistake of thinking that I didn't feel anything because I didn't react to things.

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

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 was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

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

When you're in the public eye, we all feel like we're constantly observed, so we don't let things out. Anger, sadness, happiness - when does that come out? Maybe when you're in traffic, because you're in the safety of your little metallic bubble.

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

For a long time, I couldn't cry on stage. I cried very rarely as a child.

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.

I used to bottle up all of my emotions and never say anything. Even if something really made me mad, I'd be quiet.

I was told not to cry as a kid.

I used to bottle things up.

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.

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

I'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.

We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage.

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.

I'm a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me. [...] And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of.

It is kind of hard to hold a lot in. But for me… it’s sometimes even harder to let it out.

What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?