Quotes About Emotions

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with my heart and my head, and naturally emotions follow.

Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

I feel overworked, but when I don't work, I feel weird.

Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.

Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.

I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.

It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.