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“I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.”

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Author:Peggy Lee

“If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety, your body is very much involved in that. Your body is expressing those emotions. So, when we, as actors, try to access those feelings, the body is a great tool to use.”

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Author:Joel Kinnaman

“... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.”

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Author:Jean Kerr

“to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.”

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Author:Catherine the Great

“The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.”

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Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“I am not going to speculate about the emotions that might be involved in avian infidelity.”

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Book:Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird

Source: Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird

“Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of the time. Even blues musicians, a lot of them who were the most realistic, at times, they were singing a song and portraying a character in the song. There's something to be said for getting involved in the emotion of a song, too, with the characters.”

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Author:Jack White

“That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't get by it. This is dealing with the most primal instincts and emotions that a mother can have.”

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Author:Patricia Clarkson

“Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“If your home is a ministry, shouldn't that ministry become a passion? Shouldn't your feelings and emotions be involved when it comes to the people and place you love? And shouldn't your work be done passionately? Your labors should be labors of love!”

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Author:Elizabeth George

“You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.”

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Author:Marina Abramovic

“Is this just what you do? You start to get involved, get scared when the emotions are too much, and then dream up any excuse you can to run? Or to invite the other person to dump you?”

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Book:Moonlight Cove

Source: Moonlight Cove

“As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.”

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Author:Paul Auster

“When my physicality is involved, it's kind of my comfort zone, so I find it much easier to access emotions.”

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Author:Zoe Bell

“I get fired up when emotions are involved. I think it pulls a little bit of extra out of me.”

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Author:Jon Jones