Quotes About Expression

It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?

The face that cannot smile is never fair.

Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?

Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

Smile and others will smile back.