Robert McKee Quotes

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

I think that idea that sort of our emotional self and our emotional life is a faucet that you turn on and off, and that we are in control of it entirely, that's a really appealing idea for a lot of people. But there are certainly the times where it's appealing to me, but it never quite works the way I hoped it would.

Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.

I think thoughts in my head bounce around in my skull and, if they keep bouncing around in my skull, they get worse and worse. When they come out of my mouth, they make people happy.

A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

Some people say, "Sometimes I have violent thoughts, what can I do?" So I say, "Well, have them!" Cos we should not try to control ourselves. It's very bad to control ourselves in this sense. If you have any emotion at all, if its a bad emotion or good emotion, think about it, you should just understand that you have those emotions. And it's good because we are people and we have all these emotions. And the result of that is you would become more and more peaceful. If you don't let those emotions be inside of you then you become extremely violent.

The causes for my eating disorder ran along the usual lines: depression, an inability to express my rage, a desire to exert control, a desire to feel less, a desire to have my body express the things my voice could not. That, and I had gotten in the habit of believing it was better to take up less space.

I like playing someone with a certain stability at the periphery of the madness.

Getting mad only leads to madness.

I find rage to be the scariest emotion as an actor, for me personally, to tap into. I don't like anger, and I don't like conflict particularly in my life. I like everybody to be nice and things to be easy.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

I like being angry every day.

In my experience, most players act the way they do in their own self-interest, in getting their emotions out and basically working with their own demons on court.

I wear my emotions on my sleeve. If I keep that bottled up, it's not going to be good. It's all going to come out at some point in time. I would rather it come out in little bits and pieces than me try to hold it in.

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

I don't cry often.

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

Planning and reminiscing can be a good thing... in moderation.

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

Oh, I've always been very... Emotional. 'Hypersensitive' is what they call it, I think.

I don't cry about anything.

I find it really easy to be aggressive, I find it easy to cry.

Fighting in general, but especially when I was younger, was tough to deal with because there are so many external things going on that want to control you that most people have no clue about.

I've kept going to therapy to find out why my perspective is so skewered and why I'm filled with rage. It's so I can live in this world alongside these other people who seem to be what is desired and what the world wants.

I have always been a super-emotional dude.