When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
We are so trained in the thought system of fear and attack that we get to the point where natural thinking - love - feels unnatural and unnatural thinking - fear - feels natural. It takes real discipline and training to unlearn the thought system of fear.
I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.
I will write a book one day about how I feel about every aspect of Emily Stone. She's a full genius. She has found her genius and is giving it all so fully and beautifully. I think everyone who works with her, brushes shoulders with her, or even makes eye contact with her, gets a shot of sunshine.
When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
When I'm on stage I feel at home
I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.
Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.
Me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know its not some place you can look for because its not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something and if you find that moment, it lasts forever.
Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.
If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and you feel that if only you could peer round the corner there might be an easy solution. There is nothing like having somebody else beside you, because he can usually peer round the corner.
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
That is art: to give all you have. And what have you? _x000D_ Your life - nothing more. _x000D_ And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being.
But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.
This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.
If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else.
If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
I want people to hear or watch something I've done and feel that I've given it everything I've got.
I feel no grief for being called something _x000D_ which _x000D_ I am not; _x000D_ in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good _x000D_ back rub
I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.
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