Quotes About Intensity

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

I basically am always chasing this super enhanced stimulation from music.

When I have that sinking feeling in my stomach before a fight and I have that dread that I'm going to step in there with a savage who is coming in there to hurt me... I have my best fights. I'm at my best under those circumstances.

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.

The cars need to be louder so it goes through your skin and your stomach, like it used to be - and we need a bit more speed.

That churning in your stomach on the morning of a game, I've missed it. That adrenalin rush, I can't help getting involved. I can't watch myself on TV jumping around like a madman. But you know what, I wouldn't change any of it.

When that glass broke and 'Stone Cold' was making an entrance, and that roof blew off that building, that sends you higher than life or anything that I know of. It's an adrenaline rush you can't explain.

You know what I liked about 'The Condemned?' It's Stone Cold being Stone Cold, and that's what was awesome to me.

I always say that I know I'll be done playing basketball when I stop fighting on the floor. If you don't play with that edge or that competitive spirit, you're just another player out there. I can only speak for myself, but when I don't play with that fight then I'm just ordinary.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

There's just something awesome about going all-out for 20 seconds and then stopping and getting to guzzle Pedialyte.

Once I lose control, there's no stopping me.

The only way to play football is with reckless abandon, or they'll knock your beard off. And with acting, you have to pull all the stops to make it work.

My brain never stops thinking about basketball, and even when I'm asleep, I'm thinking about basketball. I love it; I love the Xs and Os and the preparation of it.

No matter how fast or how slow you get to the quarterback, it all goes to slow motion when you get there. Everything just stops. You don't see anything but the quarterback. You don't hear anything but the quarterback's breath. It's almost like you're a shark. Your eyes get real big and everything's just quiet.

When it comes to playoff time, the game slows down, the offense slows down and you've got to be able to get stops.

I want to be that guy who stops players.

Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.

Football's not particularly crazy. Once you are in it, you're in the eye of the storm, and it's quite nice.

Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.

I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline.

I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do.

I love my job, but it's intense, and it's serious, and it's straight, and it can be really harrowing.

Yeah. Blood. Sweat. Mmm." She