Quotes About Intensity

There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.

I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other things I have to hone. I can swim in that comfortably.

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

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.

If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.

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.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.

The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.

For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.

As we gain experience with the Holy Ghost, we learn that the intensity with which we feel the Spirit's influence is not always the same.

Everything was new, now I'm a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure?

We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.

sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.

I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.

The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.