Jimmi Simpson Quotes

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.

The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.

In real life, I don't cry too easily. I go numb.

My emotions are usually my weakness, but they are my strength while acting.

I listen to my emotions. That's why I react once I get provoked sometimes.

I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

There's a 'Seinfeld' episode, where he talks about why he can't get angry, because his voice rises to a comedic pitch and no one takes him seriously - and that's true of me, too.

I'm not an emotional person.

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.

Emotions are the same to all human beings. But there is some difference in the way people react to situations.

For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.

I think a lot about the editing of the films when we're making them, partly because I studied that, and partly because if you think about being in love while you're supposed to be acting in love, there's nowhere to go. You have to focus on something else and then do what's being asked, and you might get some semblance of something interesting.

You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance.

When you're on set and you professionally listen to what the other actors have to say, then the emotion is naturally evoked.

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.