"People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack"
About this Quote
The subtext is a persona doing damage control by refusing damage control. Resentment becomes not a flaw but a resource: something to hoard, refine, weaponize. “Fuel” is the key metaphor, translating messy feeling into horsepower, and “my attack” is the reveal - not ambition, not a comeback, an attack. That word choice frames his next move as retaliation rather than reinvention, and it lets the audience read him as both self-aware and proudly ungovernable.
Context matters because Sheen’s public life has often played out as spectacle: feuds, self-mythologizing, the sense of a man turning tabloid chaos into performance art. In that ecosystem, resentment isn’t just personal; it’s content. The line courts applause from anyone sick of forced positivity, while also showing the trap: a life powered by grievance doesn’t need peace, it needs targets. That’s why it’s funny, bleak, and oddly motivating all at once.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Sheen, Charlie. (n.d.). People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/people-say-you-have-to-work-on-your-resentments-35163/
Chicago Style
Sheen, Charlie. "People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack." FixQuotes. Accessed February 3, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/people-say-you-have-to-work-on-your-resentments-35163/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/people-say-you-have-to-work-on-your-resentments-35163/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.





