Quotes About Emotions

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

I remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

I know it sounds really precious and pretentious, but I can't actually remember deciding to want to be an actor. I just knew that I had too many feelings and I had to kind of get them out in some way.

Babies should be classified as an antidepressant. It's pretty hard to be in a bad mood around a 5-month-old baby.

My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else.

If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.

There's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions throughout the years. I try to have the same demeanor each and every day.

I think I am a pretty good at understanding each character of each person I meet.

I actually think I've got a pretty good horror scream.

Big things, a real crisis, I think I'm pretty good, but this little thing will just wallop me. I think I'm managing depression better now: when the mood comes, I just try and sit it out.

Somebody asked me the other day, 'What do you love the most about the show?' I said, 'The conversations that I have with my father in my head while I'm playing.' If I do something pretty good... I mean, I'm playing the gig and I'm saying in my head, 'Hey, check that one out, dad.'

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

When you are a kid, you find so much comfort in dancing. I was comforted.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

On stage, I am in the dark.

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

In stand-up, there's that idea that comedy comes from a dark place, but it's not a rule.

I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.

You'd have to spend a lot of time with me before I'd be comfortable enough to show my dark side.

I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

When you win, everything is so beautiful, and when you don't, it's not, so everything is darker.