Top 515 Emotionally Quotes

The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.

Drugs shut you down, cut you off emotionally. You think being off your head makes life easier, but it’s a lot easier when you’re not.

Emotionally, I’m about 13.

You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your scene partner. You don’t want to let your own self-consciousness block the flow of creativity that’s coming out so that you can act and react, and play what the scene is all about.

It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging.

I have had a simple life. I have amazing support from family, a great set of friends; financially and emotionally, I have been quite balanced.

Some people think ‘Higher’ is about literally getting high, and other people think it’s more in a spiritual sense. To me, it’s all that. To me, it was like I need to escape from this down state – emotionally, spiritually, mentally, everything. I want to be above this. Wherever we are now. I need to go up.

Finishing books – and leaving the world you’ve created – is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting. This often means that I’m drawing from my experiences and observations.

In India, nothing is accomplished by policy changes alone. Unless people can relate emotionally to something, nothing happens on the ground.

As a father now, I wouldn’t do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn’t do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

I love the game of basketball. I love being able to work every day. I love being able to watch film, be a student of the game. It may not show emotionally, but I just love that I’m able to do this.

Thanks to a lot of people, not just myself, ‘Whale Rider’ had an amazing impact emotionally, and people remember it. I count myself very lucky that all those doors were unlocked, I just had to open them.

What’s most important is to create an atmosphere that’s real, providing characters the audience can root for. Once they become emotionally attached, that’s the secret in building a show. The audience can see themselves in these characters, and they respond to the stories.

I don’t know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we’re all pretty much insane.

I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don’t engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.

The more professionally successful you are, the more emotionally insecure you will be.

Emotionally, I don’t feel like a trailblazer at all.

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

Having written for film and television, I had little interest in turning ‘The Good Father’ into a Hollywood thriller. I was writing a novel, and novels demand that the writer goes deeper, both emotionally and thematically.

I get kind of emotionally involved very quickly, and I’m not going to spend time with someone unless I love them. But it’s not hard for me to fall in love.

Well, obviously, as soon as I’d finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.

The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned – something that’s not a big hassle.

Sadly, I’m one of those people who emotionally puts things off and then gets caught very blindsided at the end.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

I would say I work very emotionally: I have a very compulsive way of working, where I love something to the moment I am sick of it. I have no addiction outside of work, so my addiction is that process.

I have really focused on mindfulness. That helps me make better choices both physically, psychologically, and emotionally.

As an actor, those kinds of really intense, emotionally packed, dark things, those always very appeal to me greatly.

The beauty of cricket is that there are so many different opinions as to the best way to do something and at times it is easier to see something when you’re not emotionally involved in the game and not responsible for the decision. You can go and have a cup of tea and look at it from a different point of view.

Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It’s as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

I clearly had a career in musical theater ahead of me and somewhere took a left turn and started getting all dour and serious and doing emotionally broken dukes.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

I read for the ‘ah-ha’s,’ the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man – financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

Having a giant beard really distracts people from noticing you’re barely keeping it together emotionally.

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent it feels.

While I’ve had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I’m fundamentally an optimist.

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That’s the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment’s energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

Gone are the days when heroes are emotionally locked away from the world until the end of the book, and thank goodness for that. Modern romance heroes are more complex than ever.

In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong.

I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me.

I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.

High-stakes lying is out of control. And it’s costing us big bucks in one way or another. It’s not simply a matter of quantifying losses in dollars. It’s costing us emotionally and psychologically as well.

I think there’s a huge pivot in popular music, and just in culture in general, towards art that is vulnerable and emotionally honest.

I think so much depends on how you are feeling mentally and emotionally. I try to keep my head on tight, and try to feel good, and just go out there and not be afraid.

It was tough because I was on the road so much, on top of everything. I went through what every girl goes through emotionally in life, going through high school. It wasn’t easy.

But you’re not really emotionally mature in your 20s. Well, we weren’t. You don’t say anything, you just bottle it up and then it builds up.

I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there’s nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After ‘The Author,’ I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.

Film is like football – you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don’t get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.

I tend to play ‘tortured’ a lot, whether it’s physically or emotionally.

It’s a really dark, emotionally wrenching world that we’ve created on ‘The Walking Dead.’

When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: ‘I’m in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.’

Emotionally, I love Monaco. This is my club.

I’d say we are traditionalist. We are heavy on discipline and relatively strict and structured. But we also make sure our children feel not just physically safe but emotionally safe, like they can come to us with anything.