Quotes About Emotion

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

People tell me I look angry. I thought my dad was mad at me his whole life, but it turns out that was just his mug - and I inherited it.

I believe in the importance of sincerity and emotion and honesty in TV, even when it's goofy comedy.

The landscape of daytime has changed. I'm not so sure people go to daytime TV for kumbaya moments anymore.

That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.

Emotionally, I am attached to TV because it has given me my bread and butter.

I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen.

Music is everything to me. It's the heart and soul of a movie or TV show to me because it can be such an injection of tone, and I think tone is everything to a story.

It's really cool to hear your stuff in things like TV shows. It's a pretty cool feeling to hear what you did in the studio and then to hear it in places like that. It's definitely surreal.

We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.

I would ask to tweak stuff during the action, because I thought Elektra would more likely express herself with a slap, for example. I wanted to keep the characteristics of my character even during the fights and express the violence as she would do it, not like somebody else would.

If you hit the table after missing a ball, you get fined. If you swear, you get fined. You can't even tweet what you're thinking without getting fined. Players can't show their personality and therefore fans can't relate to them.

I'm a pretty early adopter of social media. There's a whole subculture to it. I'm smart enough not to tweet things out of emotion.

Oh my God, I never really tweet, but there's a moment every day I write one and then delete it.

Sometimes I hold back from tweeting certain things. Sometimes you're emotional, and you want to tweet a lyric or whatever it may be. I can't do that because if I do, it's, 'Oh, this means this and that she must be going through this...' It's like, what the hell?

When I was twelve, I fell in love with Candice Bergen.

My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.

I'd rather have Ben Affleck feeling something than twenty minutes of punching CGI Zod. You want moments that resonate with your audience.

If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.

My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.

When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple.

I think I've only kissed a woman on screen only once or twice before in my whole career.

When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.

They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married.