Bill Clinton Quotes

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

I'm too mature to be angry.

I don't really get angry any more.

I was very sensitive, so when sensitivity has no place to go, it's often turned into anger or frustration.

When I was younger, I was an aggressive fighter but I'm growing into someone who understands we don't have to answer things with violence.

Life's not so rocky now. It was very volatile when you're young: you've got no experience. Your sense of disappointment is far greater; your sense of success is overwhelming. And then you've got the emotional conflict within any group that you're not mature enough to deal with until you get older. It levels out.

We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.

You become more and more charged with your life and with a life that you're observing. When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding. I'm much more tolerant with others and with myself. I'm not in rebellion all the time, I'm not angry so much. But all those feelings are really useful [when you're young] because they fire us, as long as they don't get out of control.

You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

I mellowed out; my daughter mellowed me out, and I don't get mad at anyone.

One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage.

I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.

My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.

It's difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I've never said something mean just like that. I've only said things in retaliation.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

When I was younger, things got to me more, but not now.