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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
Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.
— James McGreevey
That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.
— Anthony Hopkins
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
— Karl Kraus
I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.
— Anne Lamott
No-one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?
— Benjamin Franklin
Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt
— C. G. Jung
Dont you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.
— Yasutaka Tsutsui
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
— Cyril Connolly
Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.
— Bryant McGill
The term trans-rational is emblematic of a worldview within which rationality is included and transcended, not repressed or dismissed.
— Gudjon Bergmann
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
— Terry Gilliam
The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.
— Connie Willis
We often seek the companionship of others who display aspects we've repressed to the depths of our shadow.
— Lauren Kate
Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
— Wilhelm Stekel
In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system.
— Renee Fredrickson
When gender non-conforming people cross paths with sexually confused and repressed people, shit hits the fan.
— Merlyn Gabriel Miller
If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
— Wally Lamb
I've played an awful lot of repressed people.
— Rebecca Hall
And just because I don't go to bed with everything with a vagina doesn't mean I'm repressed.
— Jim Butcher
When homosexuals were repressed, you got Tennessee Williams. Today's tolerance got you Hilton Perez.
— Lenny Bruce
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
— Karl Abraham
Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.
— David Foster Wallace
Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect.
— Mordecai Richler
All fanaticism is repressed doubt.
— Carl Jung
Sharks don't kill because they're poor, criminal, insane, or repressed. A shark kills because it's a shark.
— Barry B. Longyear
I find it increasingly difficult to speak of my feelings at will.
— Alexandra Kleeman
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
— Karl Kraus
And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
— Thomas Keneally
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
— Bat For Lashes
It is not the pain from the present that is killing you, but all your repressed feelings from the past that adds weight to it.
— Linda Alfiori
Come see the violence inherent in the system, HELP I'm being repressed!
— Monty Python And The Holy Grail
The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society.
— Michael Leunig
Horror is the awakening of repressed knowledge, something that you have known all along but kept at the periphery of awareness so that life can go on.
— Matthew De Abaitua
Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.
— Catherine Lacey
I am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.
— Kathy Acker
You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
— Alan Ball
I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.
— Jeremy Renner
There must be repressed truth even in lies.
— Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
I came from a good, repressed Catholic background.
— Robert Michael Morris
Often illness is an expression of feelings repressed.
— Sue Patton Thoele
I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.
— Edward Weston
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
— Kate Millett
To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
— John Steinbeck
I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.
— Anne Desclos
He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of.
— Karen Marie Moning
America does not seek good for Islam, for the Muslims, and for the repressed.
— Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
