Quotes About Emotion

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.

When I go in the studio, I put myself into a place where I'm feeling something I want to portray, which is often being sad, lonely. But as soon as I'm starting to make something, it's when I'm the happiest. Ever. I think that comes out at the same time, so there's that juxtaposition.

Freestyling helps me portray the emotion that I'm feeling right there instead of writing it at home and having to add to it.

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

Portuguese is the language of my heart; it's the language of my feelings. It's the language that I feel I can express myself best in.

He didn't have the best shots but the intensity of the match and the positive energy you got from playing Yannick Noah was something I didn't get from anyone else.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

That's the whole point is just to bring people together in a really positive way and laugh together and cry together and just be connected through a simple thing of a few chords.

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

It's the heart that I play with on every single possession. And that's all that it is.

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

Where there is love, there is a possibility of violence but it's not that love is connected to violence but there's a possibility.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.

At some level it's still hard for me to admit that my father died. I can talk about it and around it, but those two words. 'He died.' What can that possibly mean? That I won't get to hear his voice again?

There are a lot of aspects of filmmaking that I love, but one of my favorites is in post, finding the right song for the right moment.

My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.

Don't feel you have to buy something to sit in or at. Buy something you are emotionally attached to and build your design around that. One Matisse cutout poster could provide you with your whole color scheme!

What force is more potent than love?

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Hours after I gave birth to my first child, my husband cradled all five pounds of our boy and said, gently, 'Hi, Sweetpea.' Not 'Buddy' or 'Little Man.' Sweetpea. The word filled me with unanticipated comfort.