I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
~By Larry David ~
A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way.
~By Elvis Stojko ~
I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him.
~By Delta Burke ~
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
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 ~
I don't know if we even mentioned UFOs. It was to find out why Barney was emotionally upset.
~By Betty Hill ~
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
~By Meryl Streep ~
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
~By Nance O'Neil ~
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security.
~By Suze Orman ~
I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.
~By Trevor Rabin ~
I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.
~By Jim Valvano ~
I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.
~By Carly Simon ~
Ultimately, I'm a mess. I don't mean I'm a mess, like, emotionally - I mean, I think probably everybody's a mess. David's a mess. But. I'm talking about... I'm messy.
~By Michael C. Hall ~
The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.
~By Cat Stevens ~
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
~By Annie Leibovitz ~
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.
~By Robert Musil ~
There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
~By Bill Moyers ~
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
~By W. Eugene Smith ~
I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.
~By Roberta Williams ~
An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.
~By Alan Bates ~
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
~By James Broughton ~
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 ~
When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.
~By Ethel Waters ~
What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.
~By Kyra Sedgwick ~
Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
~By Quentin Tarantino ~
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
~By Frank Zappa ~
Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
~By Xun Zi ~
There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
~By John Travolta ~
Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
~By Kathryn Bigelow ~
To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.
~By Ian Somerhalder ~
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
~By Roger Ebert ~
I'm a very emotional guy.
~By Donnie Yen ~
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 ~
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 ~
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
~By Brian Eno ~
The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
~By Lynda Barry ~
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
~By Joseph Roux ~
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
~By Edmund Burke ~
I think - I think I've always been kind of - I used to think of myself as a piece of rubber when I was a kid because I was kind of very shy and very - very emotional about things, but I kind of would bounce back.
~By Lynn Redgrave ~
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
~By Anne Stevenson ~
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
~By Henry James ~
A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing.
~By Lea DeLaria ~
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.
~By Pedro Almodovar ~
Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.
~By Annie Lennox ~
I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.
~By Amanda Burton ~
I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.
~By Shelley Duvall ~
Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
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 ~
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
~By Franz Liszt ~
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
~By Anita Baker ~
That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
~By Ringo Starr ~
I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.
~By Ken Burns ~
Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional.
~By Sean Bean ~
I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.
~By Christopher Darden ~
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
~By David Hume ~
So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.
~By David Gower ~
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
~By William Dunbar ~
The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
~By Ivor Novello ~
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.
~By John Drinkwater ~
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 ~
What I mean is that today's films lay lot of emphasis on glamour and associated emotions.
~By Rajendra Prasad ~
As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
~By Lance Loud ~
Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
~By Malcolm Wilson ~
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
~By William Wordsworth ~
It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.
~By Carol Kane ~
When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.
~By Marilu Henner ~
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
~By Arthur Miller ~
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
~By Ethel Waters ~
The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.
~By Donald Norman ~
I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.
~By John Mahoney ~
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
I think it'll be an emotional day. It'll be exciting for me, mostly it'll be exciting for them. I'm not going to get to come here a lot, so, it'll be a special day, hopefully.
~By Latrell Sprewell ~
People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.
~By Lucy Liu ~
I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.
~By Mike Tyson ~
My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.
~By Stevie Nicks ~
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
~By John Strachan ~
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
~By Luis Barragan ~
No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
~By Kathe Kollwitz ~
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 office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
~By Laurence Olivier ~
But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.
~By Andrew Coyle Bradley ~
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
~By E. M. Forster ~
I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
~By Marilyn French ~
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?
~By Laura San Giacomo ~
In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
~By Karen Duffy ~
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