Quotes About Emotions

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

Big stories need human stakes.

If you listen to me, it's real stories. It's catchy and something you can relate to.

Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories.

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

I think there is an insatiable appetite for romance and for love stories, which is partly why these books and movies do so well.

Country music has the great stories.

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.

I don't know acting, but I choose good stories and portray emotions according to the story.

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.

When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.

I always talk about Meredith and Derrick from 'Grey's Anatomy,' and I loved them the most when they sort of opened and closed each episode with them in bed, happy with each other, and you didn't need to insert extra conflict into them, because there was plenty of conflict in the show. So they were this port in the storm of conflict.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them.

Extreme pain to extreme pleasure has been the story of my entire life.

For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it.

Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.

I think that's why most people listen to me - it is relatable. Who doesn't have a drama-filled story with an ex? We all do.

I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.

I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline.

When you hear complaints about pro wrestling, it's that there is too much soap opera, too much storyline.

The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.