Sarah Gadon Quotes

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

I'm not a guy that shows a lot of emotion while I'm playing.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

The truth is I was nicely brought up and taught not to show my rage even though it was building up inside.

I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.

I don't really cry.

In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family.

Having no emotions is the most difficult, to tone it down.

I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

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.

Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

I'm mostly a quiet person by nature and don't like letting my emotions come out on the field.

I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that.

I believe that tears should be very private, and no matter what issue or what situation, we should have a very dignified demeanor.

I don't want sadness or happiness to affect my life.

I'm not really a crying type.

I show up to win. I don't show up to hurt a guy. I don't show up with emotion.

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