Libba Bray Quotes

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

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

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

I'm not too big on feelings.

British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant.

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.

Emotions fascinate me, just being able to express myself through acting. I love that. And I think, in everyday life, you're always trying to repress your emotions. Like if you're sad, you don't want to show it to someone else.

We Finns don't show much emotion but it doesn't mean we don't have any.

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.

And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

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

I think what I learned in research is that as Americans, we're very distrustful of anger. We're not sure if we should repress it. The idea that anger is supposed to be controlled is American, and we try to keep it out of our homes.

I'm quite British in the sense of not expressing my emotions much. I save it for my songs. If you ask about a death in the family, or a lover, I will not be emotional. I'd probably answer with a smile. Because that's what we British blokes do.

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.

For years I used to think that you had to hide your emotions to show that you are strong.

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

I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing.

It's so rare to see a woman lose control and also gain it back. Women are always told, 'Oh, be in control of your feelings,' and a woman is never allowed to express her anger without being demonised as being PMS-y.

Players hold a lot of their emotions in.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.

The British people are extremely conventional. You don't always know what one is thinking or feeling because it is basically hidden. The British people basically let you see what they want you to see.

I feel like clothing is very much emotional, you know?

The burial of feelings has begun.