Quotes About Emotion

I think that crying is a way women and men express frustration, anger, or passion. And we should not feel compelled to mute those emotions.

Men and women are equal. They feel hurt equally.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

I feel that people really feel they've got a part of me when they listen to my albums and the themes just show themselves.

I never really approach any project or story thinking of themes first or what a certain character 'represents.' Maybe other writers do, but for me, it just starts with the characters and a certain emotion I want to convey. It usually isn't until I get deeper into a book and look back a bit that I start to see the themes, etc.

People forget themselves in my music. It's amazing.

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

Get mad, then get over it.

There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.

You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.

My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.

I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

When I went to art school in Romania, we learned the Golden Ratio Technique Theory, which taught us that when you draw a portrait and want to show an emotion, you change the eyebrows. They are the most important feature on the face.

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier.

I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

Whether its active rock, pop, country, hip-hop - I love music; it's therapeutic to me.

Music is pretty therapeutic.

It is therapeutic for me to act, to be able to slip into somebody else's skin, and know it's not you, but know that you bring a lot of yourself to it. At times in my life it's provided me with a lot of confusion. It's also provided me with a lot of discovery.

Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.

Acting is therapeutic.

Acting is always therapeutic.