Quotes About Emotion

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all.

I don't have a favorite photo. As a photographer, I have attachments to each image. Not the one photo: the experience of getting the photos is the challenge or the thing.

I don't even have photos of my father in my house. I don't allow anyone to put them up.

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

I respond to mood. I hear some phrase, or pick up a rhythm.

Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.'

Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

I had spend a lot of time looking at things intellectually, coming from the head, let's say, rather than the heart, and saying things that way. Turns of phrases became paramount to any kind of feeling behind them, which is not to say they were all devoid of that.

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

In a modelling shoot you are trying to play a character, a role. There are models who are dead, who have no expression whatever. I think you need to use your physicality, your sense of humour and your emotion when you model.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

As an actor, you gain weight, you lose weight, you change your hair color, and you make changes physically and emotionally to be able to understand the character.

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

Film is new for me so I'm so fascinated by it and love it, but I would pass out if I could never do theater again. I'd be physically ill!

Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.

If I cannot sing, I have the impression that I no longer exist. I mean it. I mean that I am not physically there.

To lose two babies is really scary. It really caught on me emotionally, physically, everything. It took me at least 15 years to get over it and still, to this day, I miss my son.

In life, when you lose anyone, there's always an adjustment period - emotionally, mentally and physically.

'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.

As actors, we exhaust ourselves emotionally and physically, which no one sees.

Music is a very physical experience, and I need to understand things physically to be able to create the narrative for them.

I wouldn't say that I'm actually trying to cause chills in the audience, but certainly my goal is to, at the very least, effect a physiological response - at the most, to effect some sort of state change, ideally, in the audience.

I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'