When I was given the opportunity to direct ‘Senna,’ I decided the film had to work for audiences who disliked sport or had never seen a Formula One race in their lives. It had to thrill and emotionally engage people who had never heard of Ayrton Senna.
I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged.
I genuinely believe that, physically and emotionally, women are far stronger than men. The amount of pain they have to endure for a childbirth, a man cannot take an ounce of it. A toothache or a stomach upset is the end of our world at times.
It becomes second nature, you know when it comes to life or death and loved ones leaving, having to be there for your family, not just emotionally, but financially or physically.
My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, ‘Today is what I have.’
Over the years, I thought many times about how my life would have changed if I had been drafted and Styx never had happened. Even if I hadn’t been wounded or emotionally scarred, it would have changed my whole timetable.
We were ambitious. The several levels of Dante’s inferno that we had to go through emotionally within the band to be able to stick to it, was crazy. That’s ambition.
All of the things I’ve directed, I’m really emotionally close to. That’s why I choose to direct them and spend years on them.
I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.
I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don’t believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.
The justification for early boarding is based on a massive but common misconception. Because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, the founders of the system believed that emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough. It does the opposite.
People love storylines. They love them because at some point, the talent will get people emotionally invested.
I’m attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.
There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.
I was a teenager and it was tough years for me. Being able to bring myself into a character and live in somebody else’s world was so important for me emotionally. I couldn’t express things well in my normal life. I was so overwhelmed by my emotions.
I’m very, very fortunate to be in the job that I’m in, and I would love for it to continue forever, but it won’t. I have to financially and emotionally prepare for the day that ‘Mad Men’ will go away, because who knows what my next job is going to be?
It’s hard to tell the story if you’re not involved yourself, emotionally.
Sometimes moving your body can bring you into a better place mentally and emotionally.
There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
My kids, they take a lot from me and I always come from an intellectual place. Like intellectually, not emotionally, and most people come from an emotional place and it’s unfortunate.
There is something calming and emotionally restoring when you focus on gratitude for a known deed that helped you, instead of fear of the unknown.
For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do – usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.
The South Africa public are very passionate and they just care a lot for their team. So if something goes wrong, because they are so emotionally invested in it, they feel as though we are letting them down.
I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
Hamilton’ is as hard a job as anything I’ve ever done. It’s equally rewarding, but it’s very taxing. It’s just so hard physically and emotionally to do it, and it just empties you out.
I’m not really emotionally dependant on anybody except my son, my daughter-in-law, and my grandchildren. But a partner… I haven’t felt like that for so many years, I don’t really remember what it was like.
I really like Dontrelle Willis’ pitch; he’s animated on the mound and is fun to watch – he gets into the game emotionally.
Forever is a very wide word, but I’ll be connected to the Spurs, if not contractually at least emotionally.
Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.
I have a problem with beginnings… and endings… and middles. But I don’t know what else I would do. I find it very, very difficult to write. It takes everything; it’s physically and mentally and emotionally exhausting for me. And my neighbours. And my dog.
Getting out of a character is emotionally taxing. You get used to being a person on camera, and when you move on, the character remains with you for a long time.
When you operate from a nothing-left-to-lose mentality, it’s essentially the same thing as the ‘Law of Least Resistance.’ You have a goal in mind, but you’re not emotionally attached to the outcome. You’re focusing on all of the little steps inbetween.
Crime against the vulnerable individuals of society is a worldwide problem and as women, we need to know how to defend ourselves both physically and emotionally.
For moral judgment, I think the most interesting trends in neuroscience are the ways in which judgments vary as a function of how emotionally salient the situation is.
You can be feminine and wear heels, dresses, and makeup, and still be a powerful woman – physically, mentally, emotionally.
It’s when you begin to deal with stress mentally, physically and emotionally, that you can be truly fit.
I can’t write about someone who is unlike me in all senses-physically, emotionally and socially.
Emotionally, I think you’re going on a journey with the character, so you have to be present for each and every scene, and for me,one thing I like to do is step away between takes, away from everyone else, listen to some music, and just get into that place to help me perform.
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
A person doing experimental music must be responsible for the results of the experiments. They could be very dangerous emotionally.
The coronavirus pandemic has been emotionally taxing for all families, and this time is especially disruptive for those relying on carefully built routines and support systems.
Theater school is essentially like training. It’s boot camp. It’s like an academy to put you through all these different situations that sometimes are more extreme than what you’ll come across in the field. But now you’re emotionally prepared for it so that when it does happen, it’s not a big surprise.
The fact of the matter is that when you’re in pain emotionally about your life, the color of your skin does not matter.
If you have people invested emotionally in the success of their team, that usually translates to strong attendance.
Emotionally, I’ve always worn my heart on my sleeve.
The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. I’ve never been so emotionally ingrained in something – in a person, an object, anything – as I have in snooker.
I know I want to do something with kids and help them become better mentally, physically and emotionally. They’re the future after we’re gone. So we have to prepare kids to be adults.
In ‘The Giver,’ I play a character called Jonas who is a member of this community called Changeless. In this community, everyone is kept at bay emotionally and physically. They receive an injection every morning to control them from feeling things like love and pain and all natural emotions.
I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor financially, emotionally, egotistically.
I really emotionally invest in everything that I do.
The signing of the Israel-PLO accord is more than a political milestone. It is a transformative event which touches every Jewish family – physically, emotionally, spiritually.
Everybody gets bored or rather emotionally flat sometimes, but most players are not so honest as Tomic. They have sponsors that need to be happy, and they want to keep the tour happy.
The Anthropologie brand continues to succeed in emotionally engaging its customers while delivering strong financial results.
From an early age, I learned to invest myself emotionally in what unfolded before me on screen.
