A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
Everybody was a democrat where we grew up. It was a blue-collar town and the democrats represented the working class and the unions. But very, very super-conservative Catholic, very proud immigrant community, very stoic.
I'm not emotional.
I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person.
I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
I got ice in my veins!
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
I don't take things to heart. And I'm not particularly emotional.
You've got to figure out what works best for you. That's the hard part. I know I can't play as stoic as Hogan, and I can't talk as much as Trevino. You have to be your own person.
My old man is a man of few words.
You dropped this," he said, totally poker-faced.
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.
Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.
I am not an emotional person, really.
I am not a sentimental person.
Look, I am not really that sensitive of a guy. I don't get hurt by a lot of things.
My dad has even less emotion than me!
I'm not an emotional person.
I have a good poker face because I am half-dead inside.
I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
