Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.
For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.
I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.
My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.
I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.
I feel like that's so ingrained in so many children that you are so confined and repressed growing up that, anything you do, you have to rebel against it at some point.
I was a very sensitive kid who then had to condition myself to desensitize.
I've played an awful lot of repressed people.
I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.
When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.