Gena Showalter Quotes

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

I feel everything very strongly, and that is why I am an actress. I have made such clear connections between some of my chronic boo-boos in my body and emotion. It is kind of fascinating. I really feel like as a society, we need tap into that and embrace that more and more instead of wondering why we are sick.

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

I'm an emotional person, a very emotional person.

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 cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

I grew up thinking that it's okay to be sad, angry, and express your emotions. I have also banged doors and fought, as I have seen my mom do that when she would fight with my dad. Everything that I've learnt is from them, so I've never struggled to express myself.

Showing your emotions is not a weakness.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what you feel.

I'm a very emotional person, and I love feeling things, so I tend to approach things kind of openly.

I tend to lose myself in the moment. I’m not very good at holding back. I don’t know how to do this without feeling everything. My emotions are the tool I use to perform.

My earliest memories are of my brother, pointing the home video camera at me and saying, "C'mon, Ange, give us a show!" Neither of my parents ever said, "Be quiet! Stop talking!" I remember my father looking me in the eye and asking, "What are you thinking? What are you feeling?" That's what I do in my job now - I say. "OK, how do I feel about this?" And I immediately know, because that's how I grew up.

Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.

I'm very, very in touch with my emotions.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

Don't trust anyone who isn't angry.

Anyone who says he is not emotional is not getting what he should out of life.

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

There are really only two options - you can feel things, or you can shut down. But, once you decide to feel things, you don't get to pick and choose what you feel.

It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are happy, we are not [rational]. In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.