Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.

You put your heart and soul into something and it makes you a little bit vulnerable.

Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.

I'm never going to be a flat-line guy. My heart is going to be on my sleeve with every shot.

I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.

I live my life pretty emotionally, for better and for worse. I'm pretty thin-skinned and transparent. I lead with my heart, and I wanted to make a movie that did the same.

I acted my heart out.

If your heart's not into what you're selling, you're not going to make it.

Everything I say, it comes from the heart. It's all real.

I always put a lot of heart in my movies in general, but in 'It' too, I put a lot of heart in it.

If you go out and make a show and put your heart on the line every time, the people will respond to that and the promoter won't be able to say anything.

Staging any play is very exposing because, if you are going to do it well, you have to put so much of yourself into it.

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

Before I started writing my album, I didn't tell people many things. But because I'm going to the studio every day and telling strangers my deepest and darkest emotions, it's made me more of an open book. I wear my heart on my sleeve a lot more now than I did.

Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him. "Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her. "It takes a man with real heart" —he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest— "to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

Anything that I've put my name to and my face to and put my time into, is something that I'm clearly passionate about, or I wouldn't be there.

I write with all my heart

Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. I was completely the eager beaver in school, I was the girl in the front of the class who was the first person to put her hand up, and it's often not cool to be the person that puts themself out there, and I've often gotten teased mercilessly, but I found that ultimately if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in - even if it makes you vulnerable - amazing things can and will happen.

When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "Both Sides Now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother.

I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.