Quotes About Emotions

'Mike & Molly' exists in a world where we don't just say a snarky line, make a crazy face, and walk out of the room. There's actually some tender moments here, too.

I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender.

I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.

Yes, I've got inwardness and tenderness, but I also get angry and vituperative, and you have to honour that as well.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.

Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other.

I feel like what I have learned in my career in racing is that anytime you are happy off the race track it tends to show up on the race track.

I know for me personally, I'm a person that tends to pull back from the people that love me when I'm going through something.

I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings.

If you're playing someone you care about, it's tough, and I don't want to be in that situation. We are playing big matches for big points and prize money, and I take it very seriously. I relax when I'm outside tennis.

I think people have this love-hate relationship with tennis. I also feel like that.

I've tried to dial my emotions down: not get too high, not get too low, try to find that even-keel tennis.

It's not only about a game and tennis, but it's more about the mental things sometimes.

Maybe sometimes I don't look like that I'm really enjoying being on the court and playing tennis, but inside, I'm really enjoying it.

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

There are people who criticise me, and that's normal because of the way I am on the pitch. I get angry, I get tense.

I find it hard to be joyful on screen because I'm so tense.

It is very painful to talk about my dear friend Rishi Kapoor in 'past tense.'