Quotes about Emotions

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn't you. You can change your identity. A 14-year-old boy can become Anna Karenina. It is a miracle.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.

All depression is fear-based.

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

Sometimes macho language is to mask things people are not ready to deal with.

When you try to master the emotions of a decision and say, if you're 50 years from now and you look back, 'Did we take the right decisions?' Then the decision becomes a lot easier.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

An actor's resource base must be life itself.

I think people always respond to real moments.

Romance and girls I don't talk about anymore: it's off limits. I just want to keep it private.