Quotes About Emotions

I would say that my parents were intermittently proud of me. They couldn't hang onto it, you know? It would come and go, like the flu.

I'm not 'Grace.' That album is like a brick onto itself. It's like a coffin that I put certain feelings and observations in so that they can be capsulized forever. I wanted to put them there so I would be free to move on.

Let's not project our fears onto others.

Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then.

Everything I'm thinking in my head goes onto my face, so you can see right through me.

I always liked the idea that you can put something in you onto a canvas or a piece of paper and have it exist there and not inside you. It's a way to control things.

Yeah, I get frustrated. But I try not to let those frustrations get out into the media or get out onto the court in my play.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.

I feel the dams of emotions open up more easily when one is acting.

Basically, what I'm saying is there is nothing fake about what I do. I'm up-front, I'm real, I'm honest and I'm open with my feelings.

When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.

If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.

I've written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time.

'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.

Acting opened me up.

I was a very closed person before, and I wouldn't say how I felt about things, and now I've kind of opened myself up. And it's scary.

No one in my family plays music. But since I was very little, I would go around the house singing and dancing. And when I was 8, my parents asked me to get up and sing something at a family meal. I had my eyes closed, singing - la la la la la - and when I opened them, the whole family was crying.

Audiences go to the movies to feel - and I feel like when people watch movies, their hearts are opened. I think that's the best way to influence change in the right direction.

I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and, at the same time, opening their heart.

Music can be a way for me to think back a lot of the time, almost like an opening into all the nostalgia I never express.

I'm not good at opening up with people.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love.