Quotes About Expression

Photographs are things that should be pinned on a wall, and when you stop liking them - just tear them up!

I have that look like I'm going to tear your head off. As a younger guy, I think I had that look even more and had a reputation for being in your face a lot, but as I've gotten older I think I've filtered some of that out.

Terence Crawford has always had a short fuse. Terence would get so angry that his eyes would well up and he would tear up. People looked at him like he was soft. But they didn't understand. That's how his anger comes out.

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.

I can't even call it work. I'm a creative-a-holic. I love the tearing into new material.

I think coming out, for me, is really about tearing down the prison wall.

There's always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we'd probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our music reflected the lyrics all the time. I think that's almost the fun game with some songs, is this complete tearing of two feelings at once.

My job consists of getting on stage and tearing my chest open and letting people into parts of my life that I would prefer to keep to myself. But I also think that's what connects me with a lot of our fans.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn't acted, I would have gone insane. In my acting class, I could let out my real tears and everyone thought it was the character. But no, it was me.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

There's something healing about tears.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

At things like DragWorld and Drag Con, you see young people come out in droves and be moved to tears, or hear their stories about how they found strength in what we do.

I grew up listening to a lot of very smart pop records by artists like Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Prince, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, The The.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?