Stephenie Meyer Quotes

I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day - and I like those things sitting next to each other.

During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor. Cinema can embrace all that in one story, just as the story of life.

So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.

I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.

Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.

I look at characters to see if they have some contrasts to play with; I think that's always what I'm looking for in characters: ones that have a wide range of expression.

No person is just one particular emotion.

Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion.

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions.

There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But I want to acknowledge that with love and hate it's not simply one or the other. It's at least two, three, four, five different emotions existing at once, side by side, a broad spectrum of things alive.

On sorrow floats laughter.

To be human is to have a whole spectrum of these experiences that arise within us.

Playing Dahmer, there were ups and downs. It wasn't all dark, all the time. I felt a wide range of emotions.

I like to be able to feel as many parts of myself while watching a movie at one time. I think that's what 'Super' is - it's funny, but it's also sad. It's very touching in certain ways, and it's also got a very dark sense of humor. So it's allowed to go anywhere.

Motherhood is not only something very pure and very full of love, it can be full of dark things, too.

Some very silly songs can have an almost melancholy feeling when you put it in a different perspective.

I'm not the dude with the message. I'm a human being with different sides, different shades and different emotions, different feelings.

My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.

Even on my most angry song, I'm also still saying, 'Thank you for helping me to learn.' I've always wanted to give voice to that complexity in our experience.

All through the 'Guttertown' record, there's happy, there's sad, there's strange - and I'm painting that picture.

Yes, I've got inwardness and tenderness, but I also get angry and vituperative, and you have to honour that as well.

I want to explore the range of emotions it is possible to feel.

People tend to think I'm funny and fluffy, but I can switch on a sixpence from extreme happiness to utter despair. I'm aware that doesn't make it easy for people sometimes.

It's almost as if the Swedes have two different personalities: one for winter and one for summer. I am both a happy and a melancholic person. It's complex as I get so much from life.