Quotes About Emotion

For me, all you want from your actor is for them to engage on a deeply emotional level with the material. If you feel like that happens, directing the actors is pretty much done at that point.

Music for me has always been something that is directly connected to my heart.

Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves.

I want all that dirt and grime and life-sauce. A lot of my favorite old soul records have it, but you don't hear it on country records anymore.

Passion: It's what separates a singer from an entertainer. I hope I have passion for my music, my family, and my friends until they start shoveling dirt on my face.

Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.

When I sing songs, I love to put emotion into it. I want people to feel what I feel and just disappear for a moment.

I don't have religion or culture. I don't have anything I can believe in when I'm really scared. When I play the songs, I feel the fear disappear.

I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.

The experience of 'Braveheart' was great, but I was a little disappointed that we weren't telling the rest of the story.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.

There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.

Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

The very best design, I feel, is that which resonates so deeply that people can't help but discover something within themselves when they see it.

I'm so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

People can be a bit flagrant when they're having an affair. Most of the time, there's an element of it where they want to be discovered because they're in crisis. They need the boil to be burst, in some way, for a resolution.

Cancer is an emotional disease.

I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.

I've always had a problem saying what I feel for fear of having someone dislike me.

Love or hate me, like or dislike me, laugh at me or cry with me, I have always shown you who I really am.

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.