Quotes About Emotions

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

Sometimes I'm so exhausted and I don't really want to play.

People are so mean, it's exhausting.

Living in London is funny - sometimes I love it and think it is absolutely amazing, but sometimes it is just exhausting.

I think the longform email is exhilarating and exhausting at the same time.

As an actor, I have these tics that I don't even know exist.

You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

I want life. I want to feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye existence we have, to feel all that can be felt.

I think when you have to deal with everyone else's expectation and it's not in line with how you feel, that's difficult.

I don't want to say that our expectations of love are too high; it's just that if we're to meet them, we have to become a little more self-aware.

'Say Her Name' was a book I never wanted to write and never expected to write. I wasn't trying to do anything except write a book for Aura - a book that I thought I had to write.

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.

I don't really get inspired by landscapes that much, it's all people.

When people say, 'Stay in your lane; you're a musician, so you should only talk about music,' what do you think songs are written about? I connect with music because what somebody has said has resonated with me in one way or another.

What I try to do is find a language for life.

I think the ability to emphasize is, in large part, what makes me a man and not a boy.

Eminem was someone that I discovered I liked, largely because of his relationship to language and to his mother.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

There's nothing wrong with making people laugh. We all need to laugh. Sometimes I get all these laughs inside of me, and there's no place to let 'em out.

I have a couple of really hard, weird laughs every day.

I couldn't have made it without knowing how to use laughter to get from one day to the next.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

I've worked so hard for years, and it's just incredible to see my clothes in Dorothy Perkins. I got quite emotional at the launch.