#repressed

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#angry #because #become #certain #club

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#being #contemplation #developed #developing #ended

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#butchers #fear #irrational #life #policemen

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#almost #crime #desire #due #expression

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#good #good people #high #home #hugging

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#catch #eyes #good #guess #i

The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in. ↗

— Theodor Reik

#back #bang #behave #being #come

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#good #i #person #repressed #school

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#design #heavily #i #i think #know

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#dangerous #express #fears #people #repressed