Quotes About Emotion

Acting is actually private.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

Sadness is a privilege. To be mopey about something, that's a privilege. I did not grow up with that.

My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.

I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.

Love is the prize in life.

The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

People all over the world know me as an Indian artist. I could have chosen any other country and wouldn't have had to go through problems claiming my citizenship. But it is India where my heart is and has always been.

The thing that makes me want to proceed and finish a song is when it really touches me and makes me feel something.

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

Filmmaking as a process, it's bittersweet.

Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel.

You can't un-have an experience. You can deny the experience; you can process it and try to get through it, but you can't change the fact that it happened to you.

Chemistry is one of these crazy things you can't teach or learn or you can't fake. You go in hoping it will work, hope that you will connect with the other actors. I was fortunate on 'Modern Family' and 'The Procession.' They are great people, very easy to like.

In school, my biggest fear was that I couldn't produce emotion on cue.

I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

For some producers who are technical-minded, making the song sound good is easy, and getting the emotion into the song is harder.

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

I miss producing. I hate it when I do it, but I love it.

You want a great product, you want things that resonate with people and make them dance.

If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it.

No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.