Quotes About Emotion

Why are we scared of a '50s weepie? Why are we scared of a movie that pulls you in and punches you in the stomach?

I work more with my stomach than my brain.

In my family, and especially when I go back to China, it's always like, prepare your stomach, because it's the way that they express love.

That churning in your stomach on the morning of a game, I've missed it. That adrenalin rush, I can't help getting involved. I can't watch myself on TV jumping around like a madman. But you know what, I wouldn't change any of it.

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

Love cannot be defined, caught, cast in stone, or archived. It's something we have no control over. Love is completely analog. Love can never be digital.

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

If somebody says, 'Do you remember the first time you heard a Rolling Stones song?' if you say you do, you're crazy. You've just always heard them. You might remember the first time it impacted you, but the first time you heard one, you were in a cradle.

I was absolutely lost in love and life when I did my drawings. Time stood still.

When I drove up on the set one day, and they'd put up a sign that says 'The Bill Engvall Show,' I stood there for 20 minutes just staring at it. The director, James Widdoes, came up and said, 'What are you doing?' And I said, 'Look at this! There's my name on a stage door in Hollywood!'

I stood in front of a mountain and was overwhelmed by the beauty and energy; I had goosebumps. I thought, if I could record this feeling, go back home and pour it out again so other people can have that feeling, this I would want to be my work. I knew it was acting - I wanted to be like a messenger or medium.

Dancing is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that. You're dancing spirit.

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

'Simply the Best' has always been one of my favourite songs and a song that I've always thought was far deeper than what you imagine it to be at first listen. I found the lyrics to be really, oddly beautiful, considering you rarely stop and think about them.

It's rare for me to sit in a room with my guitar and feel like I can't stop playing, because it just sounds so good.

I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.

I really never stopped thinking about Ellen, because I just haven't felt that kind of energy with anyone in my life.

Every song is personal, but 'Ohio,' on my first EP, was on another level. I really opened up about the lack of relationship I had with my father. We stopped talking about four years ago, and I haven't had a father figure in my life since.

No one needs to recut 'He Stopped Loving Her Today.'

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.