Quotes About Emotions

It was really difficult to tour on 'Psychopomp' for a year and do the press cycle and talk to people three or four times a day about my mom dying.

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

I feel like I go through cycles as an actress.

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

My mother died when I was two years old; that's why I have so many daddy issues. And that's why my relationship with my dad is so strong.

I bought my dad a bustdown Rolex for Christmas, and I had got my mama kitchen remodeled. My daddy cried, my mama cried, I cried.

As a child, I was embarrassed by my dads effusive episodes, but I suppose I got used to living with someone who was intermittently sad.

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

I think there's more to be happy about than sad about on a daily basis.

I always feel fear, even just in daily life I feel fear.

I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.

I wouldn't mind being the male Adele. She came along, and people were like, 'Damn, we haven't heard anyone this real for years.'

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

When I was a dancer, I was acting.

There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither "good" nor "bad." They don't hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds.

Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.

I love a great melody and wonderful lyrics that speak from the heart, and my music has that and speaks about it; but there's just something that was really raw and energetic about the early House music. It's hard to describe. It's like you had to go to these parties where the stuff was being played on these huge sound systems to really feel it.

Particularly women need to pay attention to what is unique to their own personal biology and emotional systems, and not deny it.

When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.

I've been an idiot at the poker table for a long time.

There were rumors I wasn't going to die. The whole cast was sitting around the table reading the script. I fell on the floor - I'm not kidding. I looked up at Katherine Heigl, and she was crying.

Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected.

Very little gets offered to me. I have to audition and bawl my eyes out. For 'Broadchurch,' the scene was Danny lying on the mortuary table. I can't remember the last audition I had where I didn't come out drenched in sweat, puffy-eyed.

When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.