When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn't been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there.
~By Hugh Dancy ~
Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.
~By Jack Osbourne ~
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
~By Jack Lemmon ~
And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.
~By Debbie Harry ~
The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.
~By Placido Domingo ~
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
~By Anne McCaffrey ~
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are.
~By Boz Scaggs ~
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
~By Alfred Adler ~
We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.
~By Marion Zimmer Bradley ~
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
~By Mark Twain ~
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
~By Bill Forsyth ~
I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.
~By Gloria Stuart ~
The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.
~By Avi Arad ~
When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.
~By Marilu Henner ~
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.
~By Beth Gibbons ~
Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.
~By Herman Kahn ~
An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.
~By Alan Bates ~
At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.
~By Lakshmi Mittal ~
A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.
~By Anthony LaPaglia ~
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
~By Ira Glass ~
I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.
~By Archie Shepp ~
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
~By Brian Eno ~
The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.
~By Boris Becker ~
I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.
~By Sebastian Bach ~
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
~By Albert Finney ~
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
~By Diane Ackerman ~
The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.
~By John Vinocur ~
I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
~By Han Suyin ~
I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.
~By Lauryn Hill ~
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
~By Joyce Cary ~
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.
~By Steven Levy ~
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.
~By John Mellencamp ~
I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.
~By Josh Holloway ~
So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.
~By Rick Moody ~
It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.
~By Tommy Bond ~
We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
~By Graham Nash ~
Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.
~By Hugh Jackman ~
We all have human emotions that rob our lives.
~By Jennifer O'Neill ~
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
~By Edward Hopper ~
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
~By Alfred Adler ~
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
~By Liberty Hyde Bailey ~
It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional.
~By Frank Luntz ~
Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
~By Kabir Bedi ~
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
~By Anna Freud ~
Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.
~By Mike Simpson ~
Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
~By Kathryn Bigelow ~
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
~By Kate Millett ~
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
~By Clive Bell ~
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
~By Stendhal ~
Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.
~By Luke Wilson ~
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
~By Shirley Chisholm ~
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
~By Charles Stanley ~
Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.
~By Jim Hodges ~
Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.
~By Herman Kahn ~
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
~By Edmund Burke ~
I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.
~By Ruth Pitter ~
For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
~By George Orwell ~
We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.
~By Ajay Naidu ~
There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional.
~By Marcel Dionne ~
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.
~By Charlize Theron ~
I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.
~By Ashlee Simpson ~
Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
~By Ralph Bakshi ~
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
~By Roger Ebert ~
So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.
~By Ville Valo ~
When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.
~By Jeff Gordon ~
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
~By Larry David ~
We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.
~By Alan Thicke ~
You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair.
~By Gregory Hines ~
I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.
~By Hugh Grant ~
It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.
~By Frank Luntz ~
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
~By Plato ~
When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
~By Ian Mckellen ~
The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
~By Charles Williams ~
I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.
~By Tim Conway ~
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
~By Susan Griffin ~
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
~By Edwin Land ~
As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.
~By Richard Foreman ~
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
~By Edmund H. North ~
So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.
~By Diana Ross ~
I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.
~By Ludacris ~
My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.
~By Wilfred Burchett ~
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
~By A. C. Benson ~
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
~By Ken Kesey ~
Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.
~By Akshay Kumar ~
Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.
~By Arthur Levitt ~
I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.
~By Stephen Hopkins ~
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
~By Maurice Ravel ~
Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially.
~By John Zimmerman ~
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