Quotes About Emotion

When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when a novel goes wrong, but there is a kind of magic that can and should happen.

The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

I love theatre. It's far more satisfying than film. Sometimes there's a collective sigh from the audience, or it's so quiet you can hear a pin drop. I couldn't believe how easy acting was when there's an audience; after a few previews I almost couldn't do it without one.

The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They're very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I've seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It's a little bit like church, but it's very secular.

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them.

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.

When a theme is beautiful, it's a pleasure to rearrange it or to interweave it with your own music.

The humor and emotion of the 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman' theme makes me cry every time I watch it, and that deep emotion is something we'd love to do on the show. If we can make you cry, we always try to. And 'Once,' when it's at its best, is emotional and fun.

I like to try to capture places that a lot of people went to or have a deep emotional connection to. Malls, abandoned speedways, abandoned theme parks. To me, those are most interesting kinds of things to capture.

I think that soul, to me, is the theme of music that I connect with.

An actor doesn't change thought, theme, or mood unless the character does, and the character only does it within the words of the play.

I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course, is an endless subject.

I long for real and true connection. It has been the theme of all the songs in my whole life.

If I'm soloing, I usually try to start with a theme, which will often stem from the blues.

Now that he'd seen her, he knew what he'd long suspected. He was far from over her. *

I saw your daddy tonight," Franci whispered. "There's a reason you're so beautiful.

Vanni rocked Hannah back and forth, tears running down her cheeks. Hannah settled back against Vanni and looked up at her face. She put a pudgy little hand against Vanni's cheek and said, "Mama." "Yes, my little angel," Vanni said with a sniff. "I'm going to be your mama. Yes. Mama loves you." *