Quotes About Emotions

But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him... when he is dead.

I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

I'm getting less and less interested in the problems of youth. I'm much more interested in the idea of emotional paralysis, and I find myself less interested in work that doesn't have anything to do with a conversation about the world.

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose - you drop into a different kind of serious.

It's really difficult seeing your role model or your parent cry.

You can imagine what a dorm room environment is to a CF parent. It's like, oh my God. It's crazy.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes.

'Monsters,' everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent. We're always kind of looking for those emotional nuggets. They're always at the heart of the story.

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

I think any parent, at some time or other, has thoughts of their child dying. That's probably one of the worst things that could ever happen to a parent.

As a parent, I can get so frustrated. Any parent can!

Any scene I've ever played where I've thought people who watch it had experienced something like that - for example, people who've had to deal with losing a parent - I want to do it as respectfully as possible for those people.

It is devastating, losing a parent. I don't really know what the effect is, but I suppose people might call me an ambitious man, and I'd say that an ambitious man is a damaged man.