Harriet Walter Quotes

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.

I'm too mature to be angry.

Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.

Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.

We can't determine our emotions, but we can choose our attitudes and actions.

I overheard one of my friends say, 'If Amari scores, I bet he's real happy and he'll get real excited.' I just so happened to score, and since I heard him say that, I was like, 'Nah, I'm not going to get really excited.' And for some reason, that felt like the right thing to do. I been the same way since.

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 know I've had an attitude that can explode, but I'm trying my best to not step out of bounds.

I have a mean streak and I am capable of cruelty. This does not mean that I am necessarily mean and cruel; instead, it means that I have to be vigilant about my capacity for cruelty and the mean bone in my body.

As long as I am on the sets I am like a goddess, goody-goody and nice. If there is something that upsets me or irritates me, I don't show it there. I wait till I get home and direct it on my family.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.