Everett McGill Quotes

The body never lies.

There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

I can't fake emotion.

I just wanted Sadness to be true, to come from a real place. I tried to work from the inside out, going from my gut all the time. I didn't over-analyze it. I just did it.

It's the most personal thing that I do is sing. Because I can't tell a lie. I want them to know exactly what I'm feeling.

I just really like it when things are earnest.

I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.

I think things are dishonest if they're not aware of sadness.

Feelings don't lie.

'Bottled Up' is so honest. It's something we all can relate to.

I am an honest person, and that includes showing my emotions - good or bad.

That's what I am. I warn people. Whenever I see and I feel things in my heart, I speak it.

We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Acting is about being real, being honest.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.

You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.

You know what, I just write what I feel.

In interviews, on the set, talking to people, I'll just start talking about my parents' divorce, and go on and on. My mom's always like, 'You don't have to be that honest. You have to be more fake.' You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.