Quotes About Emotion

If I can get the audience to connect with the characters emotionally - and they love who they are, they love the larger-than-life situation that they're in, but most of all get the audience invested in the characters - then I always feel like I can sort of put them in the most outrageous circumstances, and the audience is okay to go with that.

What I love about 'Modern Family' is that it makes you laugh, and there's hilarious physical gags that are outrageous, but there's real heart to it, and you feel good after you watch it.

When you talk to a Republican, many of them just outright say, 'Yeah. Climate change isn't real,' without assessing the facts, and it's a big problem. It's not a red or blue issue, it's a green issue... Not because of facts or science but because of emotion.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

A part of me always felt like an outsider and still does.

I can't be objective about my work, because I am so involved that I can't see it as a product to be judged. I can't see it as an outsider.

Mandy' came from grief and depression. I wanted this to be an outward volcanic expulsion of the emotion of my first film.

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

My journey with grief, with learning how to grow through it, rather than get over it, will be a lifelong one.

Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.

For me, love is such a beautiful thing and I love that you actually have no control over it.

We have more than enough deodorised, over-the-top, sentimental cinema. Let's try to bring a little human intelligence into things. It can be very rewarding.

Accents influence a performance. If you look at Stanislavski, he says work from the in to the out, and I probably overall work the other way. I find an accent and a mood, and that influences the character massively.

Dance has helped me overcome a lot of personal challenges. If I feel sad or depressed, I just go to the set and dance. It makes me feel alive.

Wrestling fans are the best, because they are so loyal. You can play on emotion. The good guy gets knocked down, and the bad guy takes advantage. And the good guy comes back from the very bottom to make that explosive comeback and overcome.

When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.

'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.

I cried, I was so overwhelmed to meet Michael Jackson.

I think the feeling of being kind of overwhelmed is almost part of the aesthetic of the work.

I was so overwhelmed years ago, when I was a kid, by 'All Quiet on the Western Front.' I think it was the second movie I ever saw. I never got over that one.