Quotes About Emotion

When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind.

I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.

I like the idea of contained emotion because I grew up most of my life feeling that way. As an adolescent, people would always say I was not expressive, and they always made the mistake of thinking that I didn't feel anything because I didn't react to things.

Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

It's difficult to explain exactly how I react to music, but if it makes me feel anything at all, then I'll have some kind of emotional relationship to it. That's what defines good music to me - if it makes me truly feel something.

People react to 'Drive' in a way that is very primal.

I love working with an actress that you can just look at them and be able to react with your eyes and not have to do much else.

I believe in the fact that an audience has one heart. I can just tell you one thing: If I sing the 'Adagio,' and I pull it out with all the honesty I have - whether they're Japanese, Italian, American or Belgian or French - they will react in the same way.

My music is born from instinct. I react to situations a script may provide while creating a song.

Acting to me is always reacting.

Acting is about reacting, and it's not easy to do that when you don't have a good co-star.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

Reacting is so important to the craft of acting.

Feeling and reacting has more impact than just trying to emote what your character's saying.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

If I was being very honest about it, probably more honest than I should be, '28 Days Later' was a reaction to 'The Beach' in some ways because I felt it lacked a kind of aggression in it.

As an artist, I want a reaction.

I'd rather create something that gives people a very strong reaction than create a show that someone looks at and says, 'Hmm. Fine.'

Have you ever heard someone tell a story but felt they are just mouthing the words without being emotionally connected? When you do this, you often create a more negative reaction than if you hadn't told a story at all. That's because others can see that you're just going through the motions.

Acting is all about reacting. When you look into the eyes of your co-star and there is truth in his eyes, giving a reaction becomes so much easier.

The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

The important thing is that my music is getting a positive reaction and that people are connecting with it.

If something evokes a strong emotional reaction in me, I need to push myself in that direction.