I lost my temper on stage.

It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.

I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this, and yet it's said, it comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself.

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.

I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room.

There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.

When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

I lost my temper on stage.

There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there.

I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.