Quotes About Emotion

I'm not a person who's obsessed with scary movies or horror films or anything like that, so when I was watching the original 'Walking Dead,' I was kind of surprised at how into it I was getting.

I'm quite surprised I ever got married in the first place.

There are times I've been surprised by how emotional I can be on stage.

'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath is such a delicate song from such a surprising place.

Sometimes a sincere moment is the most surprising thing you can write.

I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

Even with a stable character, you want something surprising to happen, hopefully because that's what the camera loves the most. That's what is great about film.

Sometimes surprising an actor in a good way like that can actually create a response you're not expecting.

It feels surreal to know that people out there know me, know my songs, and give me so much love.

I remember when I was that girl crying because I was so excited to finally meet Lita. To have girls crying over me is surreal.

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

My first fight was incredible; it was surreal. I almost forgot I had to fight, I was so overcome with emotion. It was just an amazing experience.

Todd Solondz is a film maker I've always loved because of how he balances darkness, humour and surrealism in his films.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I'm going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it's a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.

But as I sat in that bed, the book in my hands, the city outside silent, I had reason to feel as if a hand from some sub-zero hell had reached up and laid itself-oh, very gently-upon my heart.

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

I am too nervous to eat pie.

What do any of us really know about love?

Suppose I say summer, write the word hummingbird, put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you.

It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things-- a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring-- with immense, even startling power. It is possible to write a line of seemingly innocuous dialogue and have it send a chill along the reader's spine-- the source of artistic delight, as Nabokov would have it. That's the kind of writing that most interests me.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.