Quotes About Intensity

Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable.

I feel like I thrive in the red light.

I have this reporter's temperament still in me - I thrive under pressure.

I'm somebody that definitely thrives on pressure and I thrive in those moments where that's going to be tested and that's what I prepare myself for is the most intense of moments.

I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I'm going into second base.

There's shouting, there's blood, there's boogers, there's a whole thing. I mean, there's spitting, there's fighting, there's ripped jerseys. There's someone grabbing someone's throat. I mean, it's why you have football.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

I think that being alive is intense for most beings in some way. Even the process of being born is an intense one, and coming to see and understand and experience the physical world, and all that goes along with being a physical being, and experiencing all of these different forms of loss throughout life.

When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.

Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.

All throughout filming '12 Years a Slave,' there was a focus like no other. Everyone took ownership of this film and gave their all.

When I do a job, I like to throw myself fully into it.

I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

When I throw a punch, I mean it.

All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

Standing there and throwing, that's what everyone likes to see.

When I listen to something, I like to be taken out of my seat and thrown across the room. If it sounds good and feels good, that's it.

Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.

I've always been somebody who sort of throws himself, you could say, obsessively into whatever thing I'm passionate about.

There's a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.

The harder stuff has always done it for me. Man, if it rips, I'll give it a thumbs up!

What everyone loved about '24' is still there - the clock, the tick, the lean-in factor, the pacing.