Quotes About Emotions

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

I have a skill set that often helps me get through hurtful moments or experiences. However, sometimes when the pain cuts really deep, my normal go-to exercises just won't work.

If there are moments in my work when people find joy and humour, that's a real success for me.

The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel for his characters and their twisted, damaged lives; he makes you *want* to feel.

Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

I think people are wise to keep love and work separate.

My wife gets so jealous. She came home from work and was mad at me because there was a pretty girl on the bus she thought I would have liked.

He was good in business, but there was business left to do. He never said he loved me, guess he thought I knew.

There is also the guitar player Pat Metheny with whom I'd like to work with: he is so elegant and so emotional when he plays that I am sure that, together, we could make a good team.

As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't even know exist. It doesn't feel like work.

You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.

Just because things don't work out, it doesn't mean there aren't other people you can't love. Love is too big a thing for you to go without it in life.

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.

When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.

I measure the success of my work by the way I feel about a film before anyone else has seen it. I think I can trust myself to know when the work is good and deep and interesting and when it isn't.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.

While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

She put a wedge beside my heart And then she brought the mallet down She sang no song to guide her work I lost my heart without a sound

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.