#inhibitions

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#curious #display #drunk #inhibitions #insane

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions. ↗

— Michael Musto

#helped #inhibitions #me #other #out

The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#any #barriers #because #break #down

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#morality #obsession #prudishness #puritanism #sexuality

Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited very disapproving copy from the Brits ... No wonder people think we don't have sex in England. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#dora-carrington #expectations #identification #inhibitions #morality

If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#be happy #each #everyone #get #happy

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then. ↗

— Oliver Reed

#give #i #inhibitions #like #now

But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#aside #comfortable #eager #eventual #i