Quotes About Emotion

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.

I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have.

Whether I moved people to throw punches or cry, I did that through my art and what I do. I would never take that experience away to race against a speedometer. Or play on a team.

I've always said throwing a club shows you care.

Thinking back about throwing myself at certain gentlemen that had no interest in me, that'll bring a blush to my face if I think about it too often.

I was an athlete when I was younger and played a lot of sports, including golf, but I always ended up throwing around my clubs in frustration.

The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.

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.

It's hard for any man to take something thrown at his face and not to retaliate.

In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

Every character thinks differently, and every character has a different energy and way that they tick. But to find a character like Kai, who is so far that he doesn't even feel things, he is so different from me. That is the most exciting part.

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

I think really good drama comes down to real human emotion. That's what makes us all tick, and that's what I've always been drawn to when it comes to scripts is real human emotion and dealing with that.

You can hear songs that are technically great, songs that tick all the boxes. But for a song to be felt, you need something else.

Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'

Helen Hunt Jackson

You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

Music is one of the last elements in the creative process. It can and hopefully should tie a bow around an artistic concept, how a story moves forward, the pace of that storytelling.

I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way.

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.

So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.