Quotes About Emotion

I learned that the acting I really like is when the actors did a lot of bringing themselves, and where they're at at the moment, to the character.

I wrote a song about a guy who broke my heart, and it changed my whole world.

There's no such thing as a broken heart, and there's no such thing as a Sasquatch.

What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal.

When I think of the 1980s, the only color that comes to mind is a brown, yellowish color. I guess it's coming from my life experience, and it's melancholia and sadness and a bit of joy.

'American Buffalo' is special. I can't wait to fight to make an audience feel about it as I do.

If there was ever a true emotion of a Chicago Bull, Derrick Rose embodies it. Because he is Chicago. That kid will do anything for the city of Chicago.

I watched my great-grandmother be buried on FaceTime.

Most people have the ability to turn their empathy engine back on, but there's such a seductive burn to not being empathetic.

Love cannot burn constantly.

When I made my first decision, come hell or high water, that I would try to be a professional actor, I was burnt. Emotionally, I was burnt.

I'm afraid I'd get morose without the excitement of the business world.

You can't be emotional if you're trying to be a businesswoman.

When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.'

The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

Box office success is pertinent but the story has to have a life beyond the two hours.

Something that 'Game of Thrones' always does successfully is that action sequences are never just action sequences. There's always a point of view, and you're always identifying with one person or one group of people.

Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.

You should write songs about what you feel, but you can't write in such a way like it's a diary entry. You should write it in a way that people understand in their lives.

When you have a nightmare, you think, 'What caused this?' And then you can sometimes get the same scenario two or three nights, back to back. Or something really bad happens, and you feel absolutely sad and do not want it to be real. You don't want to fall asleep and get sucked back into that same dream.

Whether it's Brad Pitt up there, if there's a good moment up there, and you get pulled into the emotion, you're not thinking, 'Oh, that's Brad Pitt. He's an actor, and he's famous.' That's kind of the nature of storytelling, right? You sit around the fire and tell a story, and you can get sucked into that story.

I'm a sucker for a sad song.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.