Quotes About Emotion

The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves.

Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.

For all my success with the Ramones, I carried around fury and intensity during my career. I had an image, and that image was anger. I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.

I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life.

I'd rather kiss my best friend than kiss some random guy.

Sometimes I just cry at random stuff!

Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.

I like that my dad makes it clear he's there to make you laugh, not to showcase his emotional range.

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

I'm a musichead. My favorite Gaga song of all time is 'You & I' - it might not be the popular vote in terms of charts or sales, but it's my favorite.

I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

I can't believe that 100% of the people who stand in art galleries looking at art are thinking, 'Well, here I am, looking at art.' They must be having some sort of other, unselfconscious experience.

If I had been in the gallery, I'd have gone home.

I've read all the 'Game of Thrones' books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it can be hard to get out of character.

I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.

I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

The Garden State will never leave me.

Words matter. Words can be a fire to the gasoline of disturbed minds.

Music has always been and will always be a strong gateway to connect with consumers in an emotional hot state.

Sports is a bunch of people gathering around, watching something that they're not actually connected to - they're just emotionally connected.

I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.

I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary. I like to think if something scares me, then there's a very good chance an audience will feel the same way.

As an actor, you tend to get excited about scenes that are weighty or meaty because you get to shift gears in a way that's quite interesting.

Your gender should not matter in your heart or in the way you express your personality.