Quotes About Emotion

I think what actors have to do, what performers have to do to emotionally get to that place and have a camera and have your face 20 feet high on a screen, is such an incredible thing.

You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.

If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

Every dish is very connected to my own experiences. Perhaps I go deeper in the description and feeling in the dish than a male chef would. But it's difficult to say.

I feel perhaps my heart is still in China.

Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.

I'm a fan of good music, period.

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

Music is my breath, blood and food - without music I would perish; the actor in me would die.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

People will listen to a song and expect that you just have that persona on all the time. But really, that was your one outlet that one day to get that emotion out. The only difference was you put it on a canvas that's going to be there forever.

To Pedro, God was the love which existed between two human beings, or a group of human beings. Thus love was all important.

What Love Is Like Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme, trying to say- for the thousandth time- what's easier done than said.