Quotes About Experience

I look at emotional pain as something we need to go through in order to grow and learn.

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

A journey indeed, in an emotional roller-coaster.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.

The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

I was in the car driving back, after having done a scene where I kill somebody, and I just said to the driver, "I can't talk right now. I'm too emotional." The whole car ride back, I was just crying.

In terms of the emotional underpinning, if you've been in relationships, you understand what's happening.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

An emotional story is an emotional story no matter how big or small it is.

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and begins to cry. And that's very difficult to make happen.

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

Everytime I play something for someone there is an emotional thing that happens that guides me.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Older guys have too much emotional baggage. They've already lived their lives.

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.