Quotes About Emotion

I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.

Just as with homicide, those in the 'passion' category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately available - those that are easy and quick.

Two songs I like are 'High Flying Adored' and 'Another Suitcase Another Hall,' both from 'Evita.'

I hate suitcases. With a passion.

I simply hate the sight of a suitcase.

Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

Wear what you feel comfortable in and what suits your mood.

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.

Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time.

Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

I thought 'Skyfall' was a sumptuous film.

I prefer the gloominess to the sun. I don't know why.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.

'Kilikal Parannatho' sung by Rajesh Krishnan, who sung 'Julie I Love You' in 'Chattakari,' is a personal favourite of mine.

Whatever I have sung over the years, people remember the song first by the 'dhun' and words.

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even when in character.