Quotes About Emotion

Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language.

I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.

It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.

I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

'24' was so serious that it was nice to join 'NCIS' and even be able to smile once or twice.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.

When I read the 'Twilight' book, I didn't see it as fantasy. I saw it as a love story.

People forget what they want to forget.

I don't think there is anybody who's watching television right now who wants to see something because it looks good rather than feel something because it feels right or familiar or new or whatever.

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

My problem is not that I don't want to play, it's that I don't want to live!

The cholerick man never wants woe.

Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.

I know from teaching, that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

Act the way that you want to feel.

Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.

"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?

I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

I can hide as much as I want in my colours

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.