Quotes About Emotions

I remember thinking when I set out to direct my movie that it was all about lenses and the shots you were going to get. Really, directing is about tapping into what makes us the most human, telling stories, emotions, and managing a group of empathetic people.

I used to show my emotions too much. I had to get rid of that because the opposition would notice and start to target me. If I did something wrong, I would take it out on myself, but it is important in football to concentrate for 90 minutes.

You have to listen to the anthems, allow the emotion to come, but then need to snap back into the match and your specific task.

Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.

Playing a character is like compressing an entire life into a few lines - that isn't an easy task.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Honestly, nothing tastes as good as feeling good.

Style and entertainment tastes change, but the core emotions of being a kid - which, not coincidentally, are the core foundations of any good story - are constant.

I loved musicals, and I loved Barbra Streisand, and I loved Louis Malle. My tastes were very bizarre, but the thing they all had in common is that they took me out of my life and made me feel something.

I have a nostalgia for the years I was growing up and experiencing new things for the first time - so the late '80s and early '90s are always fascinating to me. Those were the times that I was being informed about a lot of my tastes, and so the memories are fused with a lot of emotion.

I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling.

Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.

I know some people who've gotten tattoos that they probably shouldn't have, like the name of somebody they were dating, and that never ends well.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

When you are low, you do tattoos and it gives you adrenaline for a couple of days and you're happy.

With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.

Cycling taught me to recognize that mental health is on a sliding scale. Some days you are up and some days you are down.

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

From an emotional standpoint it's very easy to say don't raise taxes, and no one wants to raise taxes.

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.