Quotes About Emotions

Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.

Making music is an emotional thing. And when you're on a video shoot with 50 people there, you have to somehow, in a non-emotional way, say what you want and not feel guilty for it. And that takes growing up and that takes... not caring how people perceive you as much. And it just takes experience, I think.

When you are young, love happens easily; at least, that's how you perceive it. You fall for the person if you get a little bit of attention.

Mental health is not a very easy thing to talk about in sports. It's not perceived as very masculine.

The black experience, which has nothing to do with my play 'Angels in America,' allowed me to understand the Mormon character. He was the character that couldn't come out to his mother. It allowed me to understand emotional and closeted behavior, because you're so acutely aware of how you're perceived.

I think that every character, no matter how different they may be perceived, they all have their beautiful moments. All humans do. All people do.

Love is not complicated; people are, and that is changing the perception of love.

When your mother dies in your arms, your perception of life changes. I think the whole thing is just a fleeting illusion.

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

Artists that are perfectionists? We find it hard sometimes to be happy a lot.

I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.

American men are more open, they are readier to express their emotions, but they also get frightened easily. Italians are used to drama. For us, arguing, shouting is perfectly normal - for them it is inconceivable.

I'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you'll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

My dad is the first to say that Mum deals with the mortgage payments, the bills, the rota, things like that, while my dad is the emotional one who keeps the home together. He's the nurturer, but together, they work perfectly.

If I'm with someone, I want them to be perfectly happy all the time. That, for me, would be the reason you would devote yourself to one person.

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

Some drivers are like that. When they get a bit angry, they can perform better.

As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.

It's not that I was crazy. It's just that I was sad at times because the world was sad at times. When I would perform, it wasn't sad anymore.

Anger and bad experiences used to fuel my performances, but it was horribly draining.

In 'BV,' every actor's performance touches your heart. The team on the show is dedicated, which inspires me a lot.