Elvis Mitchell Quotes

If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

I would like to do some serious drama. I really connect with emotional characters who have struggles and a lot of emotion and colors. I don't really want to do anything smiley and cheesy; it's not really my personality when I'm working.

When someone is suffering, you have to see this in the body and the face. I say all the time that actors use their bodies like objects of war.

As humans, we've all experienced some level of pain. Acting is just a matter of accessing and magnifying these emotions.

My talent before singing is being able to interpret and understand my emotions. I've felt pain and felt it intensely, so every time I sing, I revisit it.

All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.

There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.

I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.

Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as one, And modest flowers waving in the sun. The mighty poets write in blood and tears And agony that, flame-like, bites and sears. They reach their mad blind hands into the night, To plumb abysses dead to human sight; To drag from gulfs where lunacy lies curled, Mad, monstrous nightmare shapes to blast the world. [click on the thumbnail by Jack "King" Kirby]

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

I suffer so much in this life. That is what they [the audience] are feeling when I sing, that is why they cry. People who felt nothing in this life cannot sing.

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.