Emotional Reserve Quotes

I have no feelings except those I reserve for Mrs. Marshall.

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

I'm not really a crying type.

Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.

I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.

I am the Saudi Arabia of unhappiness. I have so many reserves of misery that you wouldn't understand. I actually think that's part of why I connect with Canadians. I think they understand grinding misery underneath.

I don't cry unless it's personal.

Just because I don't wear my heart on my sleeve - " "You don't even wear your heart in your chest.

I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.

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

Anyone who has had their heart broken learns to keep a little safety area. Even now in my relationship, I have something I can call my own in case something goes wrong. You need a place to retreat to.

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

I internalise things. My sorrows and joys are private.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

You're only going to get surface with me. It takes me ages to warm up to people.

I'm shy in my personal life.

I have very, very few friends. I live in a very tight circle and emotionally I'm probably not as generous as I once was. In an average week I probably meet 150 new people and that's uncomfortable sometimes.

If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.

In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and partly due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort of stuck to my guns for a while but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk.

There is a bearing which comes from having a little bit of something withheld. In acting classes, they always say don't reveal 100 percent: it's much more interesting.

I'm a very private person, and perhaps this can be mistaken for aloofness.