Quotes About Emotions

I became an actress and studied human emotions so that I could give the gift of feelings to my son. This is what my whole journey has been about.

I studied psychology in school, and I learned how to understand people's feelings, how to get along with people and relate to people.

I studied method acting for four years and I'm a big believer in the idea that it's not about the actual experience itself. You don't have to go through exactly what this character has gone through.

I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

I was never really interested in studies and was hot-headed and rebellious in college, as I was totally confused and insecure but was not coming to terms with it.

Songs are often character studies.

The identity of Studio Ghibli movies are how the characters move. They move like live, real people.

When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.

I hate studios; I'll be honest with you. People get weird in the studio. I've had some great and terrible times with people. People's personalities come out in the worst way.

We must study love the way we study anything else that matters.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.

My experience and growth in the film music world and the time I've spent studying legendary film composers have given me depth of insight into how music can inspire a range of emotions.

Especially since I started studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment. I definitely think I wasn't very present prior to that.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

I've always enjoyed people studying themselves in the mirror, and I also enjoy those 'walk and feel bad' shots. I like anything that isolates people and focuses them on themselves, or makes us focus on their faces as they're going through something.

I've really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter.

In high school, I started studying movies and not reacting to them emotionally.

Discipline yourself. Be conscious of what you think, and what you like. What gets you mad? What gets you in your feelings? Figure that stuff out and take control of it so nobody else can control you.

Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.

I write about so much personal stuff, it's like reading my diary.