Quotes About Emotions

I'm just coming from a more personal - and, I guess, more nostalgic - point of view.

I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be 'up'.

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

In 'Attachments,' which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would really think that much about whether a woman likes him. But I have a husband and three brothers, and they're all like that.

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view.

I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from her point of view.

I think I'm always trying to see the other's point of view, dealing in a very heart-to-heart way.

For me, the music is always speaking from the point of view of the characters. Rarely do you score an event.

I look at cinema from an entertainment point of view. I wouldn't want to come out feeling giddy or depressed.

What I have found that my comedy is doing - and what really drives me - is to sort of bring women together through pointing out why we act so crazy.

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.

Having an interview in English is difficult for me, but acting in English is much harder. Because when I'm acting in English, if someone points out bad pronunciation or accent, I cannot focus on my emotions anymore, so it was very hard.

Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it.

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Everybody wants to have an empirical analysis of a relationship ending, but sometimes there's not that much clarity, and that's OK.

I don't think we ever clash but we do become frosty.

My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances.

It's a classic love story: me and my hair. I have loved my hair. I have betrayed my hair. My hair and I have gone through this long, gut-wrenching relationship.

I listen to classic rock for the most part.

I am lonely. I clean up the house, put kids to bed and there I sit.

If you look around, 90 percent of marriages are cliches - people aren't genuinely happy even if they look happy together.