“I'd seen her name on a call sheet for so many years and been called Jo so many times. If people said Jo in the street, I used to turn round because I was so used to being called Jo for five years on Spooks. You do get so used to being called something. Often, it was someone calling their young son... but sometimes it was people calling after me because they recognised me from the show. So, it was a big deal when it happened and it was quite an emotional end.” PeopleSometimesEmotionalSon Author:Miranda Raison
“In fact, I am so happy to be turning 40 and finally having a reason to take responsibility for my own behavior. It's also worked for me in terms of my physical appearance and emotional make-up and people entrusting me to bring the things a role deserves. I don't know whether that's depth or being a curmudgeon or what.” PeopleReasonTermResponsibilityEmotionalBehaviorDeserveAppearanceTaking ResponsibilityPhysical Appearance Author:Josh Brolin
“At a certain point, I got interested in set design for the theater. I was interested in architecture, but I was taking photographs at the same time, and architecture, though it had the design element, it didn't have the narrative, emotional element that I was looking to do. I ended up painting for a while. I was dancing around it, and I realized that all these different interests came together in filmmaking.” DifferentTogetherInterestDesignEmotionalPaintingDancingPhotographArchitectureI RealizedFilmmaking Author:Neil Burger
“When you have people who are embarrassing themselves for a living, who are making themselves look foolish and vulnerable and emotional for a living, your day-to-day reality is going to be a high-wire act. People are going to get in fights. People are going to get upset. People are going to walk off set. People are going to call each other names. It happens on every film that has any emotional people.” PeopleRealityFilmFightingEmotionalFoolishVulnerableUpsetEmbarrassing Author:Paul Schrader
“I have received emails from readers who have said that they were emotionally impacted by the books, and they feel they are more environmentally aware and energized to do more. So that's hopeful to me. It is at least evidence of what I'm trying to do - trying to convey very intense emotional experiences by being very close in on character points of view to make you feel it in your body. That's one way to get the point across, by evoking a visceral response.” TryingBookCharacterEmotionalEvidenceResponsePoint Of ViewIntenseHopeful Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“Vocals are not central to what I do, and I've never liked singing live. I've always been more inspired by rhythm, texture, harmony than vocal melodies and lyrics. Plus, for me, I can better express my musical ideas through instrumental music than vocal music, the emotional interpretation of which can easily supersede the actual musical content or aim.” EmotionalSingingHarmonyAimInspiredMusicalRhythmMelody Author:Laurel Halo
“I think it's important to humanize history; fiction can help us remember. A lot of books I've read in the past have been so much more important than textbooks - there is an emotional connection with one particular person. I'm very much of a research-is-important type of fiction writer, even for contemporary fiction. I wrote about blogs in America and I've never blogged. But I read many, many blogs - usually about feminist things, or about race, or about hair.” ThinkingImportantBookHelpingPastRememberEmotionalFeminist Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Sociopaths differ fairly dramatically in how their brains react to emotional words. An emotional word is love, hate, anger, mom, death, anything that we associate with an emotional reaction. We are wired to process those words more readily than neutral, nonemotional words. We are very emotional creatures. But sociopaths listen as evenly to emotional words as they do to lamp or book - there's no neurological difference.” BookHateBrainEmotionalMomLove HateSociopath Author:Martha Stout
“I guess from my perspective, puppy love is more of an emotional crush or a platonic affection. So my best advice would probably be to be the big dog. If you want something real and lasting, slow down and look more for grown-up love.” RealLove IsAdviceDogEmotionalPerspectiveAffectionCrushSlow DownPuppyBest AdvicePlatonic Author:Nancy O'Dell
“I feel vulnerable sometimes - when I see an emotional scene, for example - and I remember what it took to get to that place, and I fear sometimes that everybody else can see that. You bare a part of you that makes you uncomfortable. I freely give it, I know, but I feel like people know something about me that I wouldn't otherwise give freely to a stranger.” PeopleGivingSometimesRememberEmotionalSceneStrangerVulnerableUncomfortable Author:Diane Kruger
“Look, any guy who tells you that he didn't have some fears is lying. Of course, it's scary becoming a dad for a variety of reasons. That's not to say it isn't thrilling. It was. It was very exciting and in some ways was the greatest thing that's happened in my life. But it's also completely terrifying and you're saying goodbye to a portion of your life and that's just an emotional experience.” ReasonLyingGuyEmotionalDadExcitingScaryVarietyGoodbyeSaying Goodbye Author:Jason Reitman
“When I hear myself speak French, I look at myself differently. Certain aspects will feel closer to the way I feel or the way I am and others won't. I like that - to tour different sides of yourself. I often find when looking at people who are comfortable in many languages, they're more comfortable talking about emotional stuff in a certain language or political stuff in another and that's really interesting, how people relate to those languages.” PeopleDifferentPoliticalSpeakLanguageInterestingEmotionalReally Interesting Author:Francois Arnaud
“I wandered around not knowing what I was doing in The Great Waldo Pepper and feeling pretty lost, and they rightly cut my part down. I don't think I was in very good emotional shape. I think I was a bit of a mess. I'd done about six movies back-to-back, and was in a state of complete exhaustion.” ThinkingDoneFeelingsCuttingEmotionalVery GoodMessExhaustion Author:Margot Kidder
“If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them.” GivingFeelingsAudienceSpecialEmotionalMusicalUplifting Author:Robert Lopez
“There are a couple of writers I admired who were very good at giving the character's emotion without stating what that emotion was. Not saying "He was feeling tense," instead saying, "His hand squeezed harder on the chair arm," as if staying outside the guy. I wanted to try doing that. I wanted to have a really emotional story in which the characters' emotions are never straight - out told to you, but you get it.” GivingTryingFeelingsGuyEmotionEmotionalCoupleVery Good Author:Donald E. Westlake
“I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the collective. I'm fortunate that I had very sympathetic readers, but ordinarily - if a book makes you laugh too much, it shifts from "literature" to "entertainment."” GivingBookCharacterLiteratureLaughingEmotionalIntimateContrastSympathetic Author:Joshua Ferris
“There were times where I felt I was pressing a little bit too hard with the humor, and I had to pull back, because the overriding concern of the book was to create this disease that had no cure and make you pay attention to every emotional stage of what happens.” BookAttentionEmotionalConcernPay Attention Author:Joshua Ferris
“A TV show is an open universe, whereas a film is more of a closed universe. No disrespect to movies, there's just a lot of artifice in closing out emotional storylines after 90 minutes.” FilmUniverseEmotionalDisrespect Author:Mark Duplass
“I think doing love scenes is never easy without a strong emotional background.” ThinkingStrongEasyEmotionalScene Author:Tony Leung Chiu Wai
“Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It's definitely an integrated experience for me. Much more than any kind of cheap, emotional pulls that you get in popular culture, when I read a sentence and it's beautifully written, it can bring me to tears.” KindCulturePleasureTearsEmotionalIntellectualIntegratedPopular Culture Author:Francoise Mouly
“Art uses many different styles, but his voice is very consistent. He's always concise and clever and funny. That's true of somebody like Chris Ware, who has an emotional quality to his work - but it's boiled down and it's very sober and spare. Each word has great weight. Comics are not just pictures, but it is graphic design in the sense that they are composed and architected in a specific way.” ArtDifferentQualityStyleDesignEmotionalCleverConsistentSoberGraphic Author:Francoise Mouly
“To achieve the intimacy between performer and audience in storytelling, I feel like I have to let the audience in on my emotional state, not just, "Here's a story I'm going to tell by rote, and you're just going to listen to it, because I'm such a wonderfully entertaining fellow." It's the idea of sharing enough of myself that it's not just all about, "Look at me, look at me." There's an element to it of, "You understand what I'm talking about, right? You've been in this place that I've been in," which makes it a richer experience.” EnoughAudienceAchieveEmotionalStorytellingIntimacyLook At Me Author:Paul F. Tompkins
“I know most people don't like to be around teenagers but I do. I'm one of the only people I can think of who can't wait for my kid to be a teenager. I think being a teenager is one of the most wonderful things in the world. I really enjoyed it - just this heightened emotional state where everything is beautiful and everything is new and you're convinced that you're really going to break the mould and be different from your parents. And the best part is that you have so much more time that you didn't have as a child.” PeopleThinkingWorldChildrenDifferentKidsBeautifulWaitingParentBreakWonderfulEmotionalTeenagerBeing A Teenager Author:Diablo Cody
“Often you find actors have big hearts; they're quite emotional people. Talking to actors who date other actors, and talking to people who deal with other actors, they often get emotionally caught up in lots of different things. They often wear their hearts on their sleeves. They feel things quite a lot - often to the nth degree, which I can imagine could make it quite difficult to date some of us. I think it's about having an emotional availability that you can kind of draw on. But I'm also searching for that. I'll be searching for the answer to that question for the rest of my life.” PeopleThinkingHeartKindDifferentDifficultImagineEmotionalCaught UpPeople TalkingBig Heart Author:Douglas Booth
“What actors need to do is to find a way to show people their despair, their joy, their pain, their exhilaration. All of these deep, deep emotional things - good and bad - so that if you're able to do that, then there's a kind of resonance that happens.” PeopleKindPainJoyEmotionalDespairGood And Bad Author:Barbara Cook
“Contemporary art often plays to the part of us that is very uncomfortable with not being sure, that cannot maintain a state of 'don't know'. The over-prioritising of meaning gets in the way of just experiencing the art in a more sensual way. Judging quality purely from an intuitive emotional response needs more confidence and experience than just working it out like a crossword clue.” ArtQualityEmotionalJudgingResponseSensualUncomfortableClue Author:Grayson Perry
“It's a very different thing when you're able to read something and see it in your mind, then to imagine it on screen. It's emotional transference that you don't have in literature that you have in movies. People invest in the person they see on the screen and they can't shift gears.” PeopleMindDifferentLiteratureImagineEmotional Author:Jonathan Mostow
“It wasn't like this happy-go-lucky experience, shooting Norman movie. It was something I kind of had to, sort of dedicate a certain level of focus and energy to kind of just stay in this headspace that would allow me to access - because it's also a very emotional movie at times. This was the first time I ever played a real character, a fully fleshed out, dimensionalized, multi-faceted character, as opposed to a part. There's not very much opportunity for somebody of my age and my look, so for a character-driven piece like this to come along is a rare thing.” KindRealCharacterAgeOpportunityEnergyFocusEmotionalFirst Time Author:Dan Byrd
“A lot of readers ask me, "Do you ever get emotional while writing the book?" or "Did you cry when you killed this character?" And the truth is, no, I didn't. That's not really the way I approach it. I don't get emotional while writing, but then there are plenty of other authors who do.” WritingBookCharacterCryEmotionalTruth IsPlentyAsk Me Author:Victoria Aveyard
“I think something that happens when you grow a bit older is you become slightly less overly emotional. Obviously when you're young or a more progressed teenager, you're overly emotional, so that side of me calmed down. I wanted to write more about stories, and other things that I'd observed and seen or done.” ThinkingWritingDoneEmotionalTeenager Author:Elly Jackson
“I think sometimes people become quite emotional about the characters as well, and that's pretty cool that you can get that emotion out of people. And I think that's more my motivation than like, "Hey I want to be the funny guy, I want to be that famous funny guy." That doesn't sit as well with me as the idea of taking people on this ride and taking them into the illusion of the characters. That's much more exciting for me.” PeopleThinkingSometimesCharacterMotivationGuyEmotionEmotionalIllusionExcitingFunny Guy Author:Chris Lilley
“Whenever Muslim women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants. It utilizes psychology to say that women are emotional. It utilizes medical science to say that men's brains are formed in such a way that they are better able to understand concepts. These are all hypotheses. None of this has been proven.” CultureBrainPsychologyEmotionalArgumentIslamMedicalJustifyProtestJustified Author:Shirin Ebadi
“The most difficult thing about acting and directing in a film is acting and directing in a film. Every ounce of your physical and emotional being, and your analytical and thoughtful and producorial being, is being exercised at all points. You are 100% working on overdrive, but because it is only for X amount of days, if you have the stomach for it, you hustle through. It's a massive undertaking, and I think preparation is the key to success for that endeavor.” ThinkingFilmDifficultActingEmotionalPreparationThoughtfulKey To SuccessHustle Author:Lake Bell
“I am not an emotional type of guy. But I follow my emotions more than my logic.” GuyEmotionEmotionalLogic Author:Bishop Nehru
“One of the biggest struggles that I've faced and overcome is finding a balance between emotion and facilitating it through logical means. One of the biggest challenges I have is finding that balance. This emotional mess that I am and this logical side of me, I try to find the medium that will balance me out. I think that's my big mission statement in life: to find that balance. It's a negative-positive and how that relates.” ThinkingTryingMeanChallengesEmotionStruggleEmotionalBalanceOvercomingMessLogical Author:Keith Stanfield
“Maybe I just have a different line than other people in terms of where my personal emotional space becomes public and private. There's almost nothing I wouldn't tell somebody about my quote - unquote "personal life" if they asked in any conversation. There's nothing I've done or said that's that great. I don't see anything I've done to be that different than any other normal person.” PeopleDifferentDoneTermEmotionalPersonal Life Author:Terence Nance
“Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.” RealSometimesCharacterDifficultStruggleEmotionalInvolvement Author:Alan Cumming
“It is culturally constructed, but not unnecessary. A crisis is a period in a person's life that lasts at least a year during which there is an unusual level of emotional instability, negativity, and crucially, major changes. This is important because right now, when you diagnose mental health problems, where you are in life doesn't really come into it. Psychologists are saying that it should.” ImportantProblemEmotionalCrisisMental HealthUnusualNegativityUnnecessaryPsychologistInstability Author:Oliver Robinson
“In order to reinvent yourself, you have to dig deep and look at yourself. I'd lost my way creatively, and I was humbled, and so I think I got really basic about wanting to depict people in the ways that I find them amazing and funny and emotional and that I can relate to and do from an instinctive, gut place. People trying to survive ... That's what all my movies are about.” PeopleThinkingTryingEmotionalMy WayGutsDig DeepLook At Yourself Author:David O. Russell
“I rehearsed it a lot underwater with a mouthpiece for Casino Royale and not freaking out, because you can't see a thing. It's like being in a really bad nightmare. I've never seen somebody drown, but I really swallowed water. It was like choreography. It was very emotional. I was crying underwater at one point.” WaterCryEmotionalNightmareChoreographyBad Night Author:Eva Green
“I'm a very emotional person, and I love feeling things, so I tend to approach things kind of openly.” KindFeelingsEmotionalLove Feeling Author:Claire Foy
“I didn't really care about money. I really wanted to follow my bliss. I really wanted to do the things that would make my life satisfying, in the fullest sense, and I was never thinking about money when I made those decisions. And I certainly didn't want my life to be driven by money. I'd seen my father's' life driven that way, and, although again, in retrospect, I understand fully why he did that, I didn't wanna live looking for that kind of financial reward. I wanted to live with the emotional, psychological, and even moral reward of doing the kind of work I do, which is, y'know, writing.” ThinkingWritingKindCareDecisionMoralEmotionalFinancialDrivenPsychologicalBliss Author:Neal Gabler
“The Mona Lisa, to me, is the greatest emotional painting ever done. The way the smile flickers makes it a work of both art and science, because Leonardo understood optics, and the muscles of the lips, and how light strikes the eye - all of it goes into making the Mona Lisa's smile so mysterious and elusive.” ArtDoneEyeEmotionalPaintingMysteriousElusiveEmotional PainArt And ScienceLeonardoMona Lisa Author:Walter Isaacson
“I'm always trying to encapsulate how we, as emotional beings, interact with the world and the machines and technology around us - being able to emote through those things. They're not antithetical or mutually exclusive.” WorldTryingTechnologyEmotional Author:Sophie
“With a live music performance, the ideas of the richness and complexity of our inner and outer worlds - the emotional world and the external world, like the planets, the weather, and the universe are really washing over you. Your body feels the intention more than your mind analyzing intellectually too much. I've always tried to do this in my music, to make it very direct and bodily, so that it communicates itself immediately, even to someone without prior knowledge of it.” WorldMindUniverseEmotionalDirectIntentionCommunicateComplexityOver You Author:Sophie
“I have participated as a leader in many organizations where the leadership culture was just mean - ugly, where competitiveness, and destructive relationships stymied progress. There should be healthy tension and candid debate, but leadership teams need to practice communication, relationship building, emotional intelligence, and be aligned around common purpose to achieve organizational success. Senior leaders, chief executive officers, others need to ensure they are fostering the right environment for leadership otherwise all of that ugliness will trickle through the organization.” MeanPurposeCultureCommonLeaderEnvironmentProgressTeamAchieveBuildingEmotionalCommunicationHealthyUglyDebateTensionSeniorUglinessCompetitivenessOrganizational Author:James Merlino
“Real sexual conversations are enormously intimate and beautiful because they reveal so much about who we are and what we want. What are the emotional needs we bring to our sexuality and how do we connect to ourselves and connect to a partner? There's such a rich tapestry that can be revealed, but the vast majority of couples have never had those talks.” RealBeautifulRichEmotionalCoupleSexualityIntimateTapestry Author:Esther Perel
“I think a lot of the time, the studio system is so compelled to kowtow to its fear that women are not going to be found sympathetic. It just sort of euthanizes any hope of more diverse examples of the emotional realities of people. Representing my gender, I think, "Well, I have those emotions, why don't those ever get brought to the screen so I can feel recognized?"” PeopleThinkingRealityEmotionEmotionalGenderDiverseSympathetic Author:Diane Lane
“The process of inner self-examination brings about a knowledge that is as rigorous and supported by evidence as anything science has to offer. At the same time, this point of view redefines faith as a knowledge that is attained not only by intellectual means, but also through the rigorous development of the emotional side of the human psyche. Such emotional knowledge is unknown to the isolated intellect and has therefore been mistakenly labeled as "irrational."” MeanEmotionalIntellectualEvidenceIntellectPoint Of ViewIrrationalInner Self Author:Jacob Needleman
“Santa Sangre is the picture I love the best, myself, because El Topo and The Holy Mountain I made with my head, and Santa Sangre I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.” HeartRealFeelingsEmotionalMy HeartHolyMountain Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky