Me Quotes

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

~ Mae West

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

~ Robin Williams

I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.

~ Ellen Degeneres

It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.

~ Max Lucado

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

~ Naomi Campbell

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

~ Conor Mcgregor

I'm very much inspired by things that anger me. If I see bigotry, stupidity, or injustice on the news, I'm inspired to find a way to make it into something comedic and relatable. Anger inspires me. Stupidity inspires me. My family inspires me. My accountant inspires me. Everything and anything, really.

~ Maysoon Zayid

Violent anger makes me physically ill.

~ Langston Hughes

No one's banging down my door. People see the way I look, and they don't feel threatened, but they should watch out for me. They don't know there's a steel rod that drives me. I get ticked off, and the rage just gets me going. My motor is anger.

~ Tim Daly

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

~ Charles Barkley

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

I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!

~ Carmen Miranda

I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.

~ Maajid Nawaz

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

~ Jim Lehrer

I had a trainer during 'Spiderman,' and I discovered I have deep-seated rage when I'm holding heavy weights over my head. Whatever dormant anger I have in me, that's where it comes out. That's not the kind of working out I want to do.

~ Emma Stone

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

~ Maxine Waters

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

~ Ben Carson

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

~ Cameron Sinclair

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.

~ George Steiner

To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger.

~ Joel Osteen

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

~ Steven Spielberg

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

~ Alanis Morissette

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

~ Drew Barrymore

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

~ Alan Alda

Boxing was a way to express my anger. All of a sudden, I was expressing anger, and I was good at it. I was like a Jekyll and Hyde. Boxing helped me because I was fighting the anger out. I was knocking guys out.

~ Gerry Cooney

Boxing gave me a voice to express the anger I felt for where I came from.

~ Gerry Cooney

I find there's this weird anger thing: Someone will approach me at the bar and say, 'Hey, can I buy you a drink?' And I'll say, 'No, I'm okay.' And then all of a sudden, there's this male anger flip, where they go, 'Oh, you know what? I wasn't even gonna buy you a drink, 'cause you're not even that cute anyway,' and walk away.

~ Hannah Simone

If people think I'm angry, I don't want to burst anybody's bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it's not really anger; it's discipline.

~ Grace Jones

It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation.

~ Ryan Holiday

For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There's no hiding it. So my anger and sense of disappointment, all the stuff I was out of touch with, became this visible rebuke to my parents.

~ Marti Noxon

There's a lot of anger in 'Queen of Denmark,' and that's me getting political.

~ John Grant

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

~ B. B. King

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

~ Tory Lanez

Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.

~ Betty White

I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.

~ Elaine Stritch

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

~ Harrison Ford

I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of frustration and anger and fear combining on me... I felt the danger; I felt the squeeze of it.

~ Tim O'brien

I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.

~ J. D. Vance

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

~ Diane Kruger

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

~ Mickey Rourke