Jay Roach Quotes

When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.

Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

You hear people say, 'Well, I was going to say this, but I knew I couldn't get through it without crying.' Well, like, think of all the great things we didn't hear because of that.

I don't think I was bubbly in 'Oohalu Gusagusalade.' It was a real character.

I'm not an emotional person. I don't use the emotion train that much. I just use the happy card.

I don't want to show my emotions in public.

I'm mostly a quiet person by nature and don't like letting my emotions come out on the field.

I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that.

Letting emotion get into it isn't part of my game. Letting animosity or a rivalry come into it, that's all for the show.

I'm not a guy that shows a lot of emotion while I'm playing.

For a stunt woman, emotions don't matter to the shot. It was easier for me to do my job if I shut all my emotions off.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

I'm not a fan of gushing emotions. I think that probably shows in all of the characters I play. I try to reinterpret the characters in my style.

I think a lot of quote-unquote 'comedic actors' really go for the laugh and are overly straining and sort of trying.

I have not wept since the death of my parents," said Luxa quietly. "But I am thought to be unnatural in this respect.

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

I have something more to do than to feel.

We can learn to suppress our feelings for other reasons.

I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.

But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.

Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again

Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness.

"We were the pair. One too afraid to feel anything lest she lose control of her ironclad hold on her emotions, and the other so hungry to feel anything that she´d risk her free will for one night of fun.".