Quotes About Emotion

The beautiful thing about 'Bhav' is that it reaches out to a far more number than just the typical set of people who say they like classical music and dance.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

An awful lot of actors shy away from the uglier aspects of the human condition. They want to be liked, which is a cop-out. You've got to go for it.

I want to tell stories that are true and that resonate and move people, that highlight both the tremendous beauty and ugliness available in the human experience.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming this kind of awful, ugly emotion', and I thought, 'I'm not going to change it. I'll call the character 'Helen' and admit to those feelings.' I think this is a reason why people write.

'Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever imagine doing again - Hilda was hilariously funny and emotionally deep... I really got to showcase what I could do with a character.

Bitterness is so ugly.

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

Going to places like Tynecastle, where you're so close to the crowd, you get reminded how ugly you are and stuff like that!

I love Billy Joel's music, but let's put it this way - I think this is a frustrated, ugly man.

It doesn't matter if you're big and tall or ugly or pretty. Deep inside, every actor wants to play Hamlet, at least I hope he does, because that's the craft.

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

That was the ultimate high, playing live. You feel like the Pied Piper, or a conductor, knowing how to take an audience up or bring them down.

To me, when you're crying, you're aligned with some sort of truth. Some inner truth. That's why you cry. You identify. It's just ultimate honesty.

There's something about two people coming together in the rain that is the ultimate expression of love in the minds of most audiences, I guess.

You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.

When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

Loss is something that I think is ultimately the number one struggle for humans.