Quotes About Emotions

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up.

If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.

It will really break my heart when I say bye to 'Breakfast'... but I will be pleased to get my life back.

In a way, sometimes I was quite pleased when I got beat, 'cos then I could do my antics.

It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us.

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.

My favorite songs of all time are songs that take you on a journey and give you pleasurable moments you weren't expecting.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

In life, you have to keep certain parts of yourself in check because you want to be a decent human being. But one of the guilty pleasures of acting is that sometimes you get to let a little something out that you don't in life because it's not right.

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!

If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.

Believe me, I bash liberals for being mean-spirited and angry, but there are plenty on my side who are the same way.