Quotes About Emotions

Often, I could not find the range of emotions in classical music which I found in the The Rolling Stones and Hendrix. Listening to Bach, I found a deep spirituality and felt elevated above the human level. Yet the feeling and emotions attached to popular music speak to us far more personally, and I couldn't leave that behind.

I've stood in front of 500 extremely angry people in Waterford when we closed a call centre there. That's not fun, and the day you think it is fun is the day you shouldn't be doing it.

Melania's a pragmatist, Melania always - you know, if you can't control people's emotions then why even worry about it. And that's how she lived her life and that is what she stood by every day.

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'

Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn't hurt each other.

I do remember when I was starting acting, going from one set to the next, with not much else going on in my life. And at the end of the day, you get back to your hotel room and just feel this awful loneliness, because the cameras have stopped rolling.

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won't be my fault if he ever stops loving me.

If you see the picture when things get exciting, he chews faster. When he really gets shocked, everything stops, including the chewing. So I worked it in for me.

I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. Even as an adult, that's a hard thing to know. As a kid, it can be really confusing, because it's all new and you're trying to sort of make your map.

Sometimes it's hard to tell where your instincts start and your baggage stops.

There is an inalienable law. Whenever a character on screen pities himself, the audience stops pitying him. They will cry so long as the character doesn't.

I think marriage can sometimes turn things into a business. It stops being about feelings.

There's something really wrong with using Botox: it stops you making facial expressions - people are so interested in how they appear that there's no intention of projecting how they feel.

I get homesick driving to the grocery store.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

I'm somebody who, if I went to the grocery store, and one of them wasn't with me, I would feel guilty. I would be like, 'I shouldn't be doing anything without them, anytime, ever.' A very codependent way of thinking. Also, motherhood is hugely about guilt.

I have to say, for a while, it was very difficult to listen to anything that Michael's voice was on. That's pretty tough to escape. Everywhere you go - food markets, departments stores, TV and radio - they are playing his music.

When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.

I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.

There is always a reason why, and I need to tell the stories.