There are still many human emotions I do not fully comprehend – anger, hatred, revenge. But I am not mystified by the desire to be loved – or the need for friendship. These are things I do understand. – Lt. Cmdr. Data Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Data’s Day’.
Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It’s not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability. – Graham Joyce
Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don’t want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it. – Hugh Jackman
While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book – I didn’t have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference. – Gary Lucas
I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you’re sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they’re imagining the same as you. – Greta Scacchi
When I play music, I realize that it filters emotions. I believe that peoples’ voices are expressed in their emotions, and I try to do the same with my music. – Hiromi Uehara
And rather than hide that, I would rather put that out on the radio and let someone see the full range of emotions. If you’re going to be strong on the radio, you got to let it all out, even the ugly stuff. And you can’t apologize for it. – Howard Stern
Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all. – Havelock Ellis
I really can’t hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn’t it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time? – Han Suyin
I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don’t want to go back there. – Hunter Tylo
Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a technique. But courts, in fact, are baths of emotions. – Helen Garner
I feel very strongly that you shouldn’t mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don’t mix them with my business. – Gautam Singhania
When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice. – Helena Christensen
All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large. – H. P. Lovecraft
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. – Henry James
When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese. – Haruki Murakami
I think as an actor you have to be open to your emotions – that’s how you tap into other characters. Besides, by being so open I’ve come to terms with how screwed I am! – Jake Gyllenhaal
I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance. – Joanna Lumley
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. – John Kenneth Galbraith
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires. – Ingmar Bergman
I could be pretty volatile, especially when I didn’t feel understood, which was 99 percent of the time. I do think that, as a young person, I suffered over that. But as I look back, it doesn’t even feel like part of me – except when I act and need those emotions. Then I can dredge it up. – Jane Lynch
Certain emotions just take you to the notes – being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes. – Jeff Buckley
Most guys, tough or not, hide emotions. I know a lot of tough guys; they’re just as weak as the next man, but they don’t show it. – Jason Statham
Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers’ main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant. – John Updike
For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions – to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn’t found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting. – Jessica Lange