Quotes About Emotional

Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.

I played up to a caricature when I was in the band, always pouting in photos and being the entertainer. But I'm also emotional and sensitive, not as thick-skinned as people think.

Beauty is not just physical.

To be a geisha, you have to have to an iron-clad layer around you - around your physical body and your heart.

I really believe that a child's mental health is just as important as his or her physical health.

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached.

'Family Life' is a blueprint of my life. It was horrible and physically gruesome in a way the book doesn't attempt to capture. It was emotionally very bleak.

The entire experience of 'Sonali Cable' has been beautiful. It has been a long journey for me, both physically and emotionally and a great learning experience.

'Medea' is an enormous challenge for an actor physically, mentally, emotionally. You have to dig very, very deep, and to work, your performance has to be very personal.

I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.

'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone besides me? My editor, Nancy Paulsen, kept assuring me, but there were moments when I was in a really sad place with the story for so many reasons. It wasn't an easy book to write - emotionally, physically, or creatively.

Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.

Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

It is soul-destroying to have your work and physical appearance picked to pieces.

I was never, like, picking on people or anything like that. I was more the other way around. I was a little insecure, I was broke.

The nurses' job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It's just a consequence of their environment.

My favorite pieces that I've written, either for St. Lucia or for myself, have always had a transporting quality to them, where they take you out of the moment and somewhere positive that feels nostalgic and happy but sad at the same time.

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.

I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.

It's one thing for the industry to lose half its revenue to piracy; it's another to destroy it emotionally.

I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.

I have to have a passionate connection to my films, which I do with 'Justice League Dark.' I have a way into the story that's personal, the way I have a connection to 'The Wall.'

I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

I went through a lot in my life that scarred me pretty good. I built a wall around myself to the point where nobody knew what was really going on inside of me, including myself.