Quotes About Intensity

Yet when adults lose the four distinguishing features of adolescence, when they stop cultivating the power of novelty seeking, social engagement, emotional intensity, and creative exploration, life can become boring, isolating, dull, and routinized.

Shootouts are spectacular for the viewers and they are interesting for the players.

I'll tell you - what I can tell you is that I know when I saw 'Zodiac' and then again when I saw 'No Country For Old Men,' there was a moment in each of my viewing experiences where I went, 'Dammit, this is scarier than 'Silence Of The Lambs.''

Jake 'The Snake' Roberts of Stone Mountain, Georgia, was the darkest! I mean, he could've been a movie villain, he was so intense! He also had the hardest finishing move of all time, the DDT.

In normal life, we are all sweet and not vamp. So, to play a villain a lot of focus is required.

I think it would be hard to simply call Yi Rang a villain. Rather than a villain, I think he's someone who becomes very focused on something and hooked on it.

I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.

I don't have a dark side at all. I just like violence.

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.

We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent it feels.

Any football game, you can be hit one way or another. It's not the safest sport that we play; it's a beautifully violent game, and that's what, in part, I love about it.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

Football is a violent sport, and if you don't kind of go to that dark place to be violent and be physical, you're not going to last very long.

I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.

I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very bloodthirsty - but life, for me, is a violent thing.