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" I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation. "

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" People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it. "

David D. Burns

Anxiety

Conflict

Fear

" Hatred is inveterate anger. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hatred

Anger

Inveterate

" Anger can be a useful emotion; it's built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified. "

" The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time. "

" I've done a lot of dramedies in my career. You know, I started as a standup comic, and then the movies that I was doing, like 'Up Side of Anger' were kind of like - they're hard. They're hard to sell; they're hard to get made, you know. "

" An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. "

" The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Antidote

Best

Anger

" I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change. "

" Contrary to what some believe, taking all reasonable and feasible precautions to protect civilians - and mitigating the resulting anger when we harm them - does not need to impede military operations. "

" Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve. "

" Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control. "

" I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form. "

" My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later. "

Wilfred Burchett

Weapon

Used

" Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level. "

" Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. "

James Thurber

Forward

Anger

" Governments that fail to provide jobs to those who are willing and able to work begin to lose their legitimacy and will face the anger of the electorate. "

" Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done. "

" Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react. "

" But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it. "

" The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite. "

" It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either. "

" The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence. "

" I'm too mature to be angry. "

" Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness. "

Naomi Campbell

Insecurity

Anger

" With social media, there is a fashion that we speak louder than we think. It has just become a platform where people just judge and spread anger and hate. "

" My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black

" I asked, 'What is this guy?' They said, he's part-fish, part-bird, maybe a bit of lizard, and you don't have to go through five hours of makeup to play him. That was good enough for me. "

Geoffrey Rush

Enough

Makeup

" Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. "

" The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. "

" I don't think any of us could predict Trump. Trump is the stuff of nightmares. But in talking to people, I knew there was a tremendous level of disaffection and anger and sorrow. I know people felt misrepresented and voiceless. "

Lynn Nottage

People

Talking