Quotes About Emotions

Acting is the most difficult job in the world.

It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

I want to try to make difficult people somehow relatable.

One of the most difficult things I find as an actor is to laugh on cue. It is way harder than crying or other emotions. It's sometimes harder than yawning on cue.

The most difficult things in the world is to touch anybody's heart.

I have been through a lot in my life, my parents divorced when I was 16, and it was a very difficult time.

I lost my father when I was 11 and it was a difficult time for the entire family. Dealing with that loss has been a very long journey.

There are a lot of difficulties with people trying to conceive.

I get so much mail from women who have lost children because one of my books is about that. There was also a period when my marriage was in difficulty, which people connected with.

Just because you are having difficulty in a relationship doesn't mean the love you feel in a relationship is not necessarily real. Or just because you actually can't be together in a relationship, doesn't necessarily mean the relationship is not real.

I really think I tried to capture the essence of the comics: what I thought would be the essence of Elektra. And then, as any character that I play, I really tried to dig inside me and try to reach real emotions and transpose that in her world, in who she is.

If I can keep it light in between scenes, then that helps me dig down further than if I try and stay at that constant place all day. That's just me. Every actor's got their thing. But that's what I do.

I don't digest things with my mind.

I use humor as a way to digest anything.

In life, when what has happened happens to you, you don't digest it.

We want the digital world to bend to your physical life, your real emotional life as a person, and we don't want you to bend to computers.

For me, the dilemma is I love Bristol, but you can only do that for so long and not get it back. It's been something that's been hard for me to accept. It breaks my heart.

Being happy in a relationship isn't the be all and end all to feeling confident, but it definitely gives it another dimension.

The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.

Growing up, I didn't have great family dinners. We sat down every night, and my mother cooked food, but it was always about who was going to leave the table crying first.

I went back and reread the Dinosaur chapter in 'Our Band Could Be Your Life,' and it was so depressing.

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.