Quotes About Emotion

To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something happy and light, you need the shadows.

Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

If love could be purchased, everybody would have paid a thousand dollars a pound for it. You know it doesn't work that way.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

I can't fax you my love, I can't email my heart.

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

I tend to write a lot of love songs, but I always want there to be something real and authentic that people can connect to, and I want to not just do it in a stereotypical way.

Steve McQueen was the guy who said less, and everything was all behind his words and what he didn't say, and you still felt emotionally connected and rooted behind him.

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

Stevie Winwood played like I'd never heard anybody play before. It just gave me goose bumps.

My mum would play Stevie Wonder around the house, and I remember just loving the songs and feeling so blown away by how much was going on.

'As' by Stevie Wonder - it's the greatest song ever written, bro.

The guys that I look up to - Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder - were always in touch with an emotion that is familiar to every man: the emotion of love for a woman. That's what I do.

You never get over losses. I've never gotten over one loss I've had in my career. They always stick with me.