Quotes About Emotions

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.

There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.

I come home more exhausted after a day of emotional work on set than I've ever had in any sporting event I've played or anything. It's draining. But it's also part of the fun.

There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work.

We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.

I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.

Because I thought I was in love. And when you think you're in love, you are willing to stick it out and make it work until it is love.

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.

I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.

I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal.

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.

Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

People love me or hate me and all I think about is the people that I know and suffer with different causes and carry on my charity work and that's what keeps me alive really.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

As an actor, I feel that my work makes me very vulnerable. I have to be emotionally available to serve the scene I'm doing. You never quite know where your emotions will take you.

My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.

You know, what can I say. If a relationship can't work out, make a record.