Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.
When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.
Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.
Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that's why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world.
When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.
On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.
I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.
It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.
Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.
I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.
I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.
People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.
One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.
I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.
I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.
America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.
Going to religious places gives me clarity. When I am sitting there, I am in a state of gratitude with my defence mechanism down and am open to receiving that energy, that gives me clarity as at that time, you are listening to your heart. The heart shows you the direction in life. The mind exists only to execute your emotion.
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