Emily Saliers Quotes

Vulnerability is kind of one of those things of, how do I really feel in this moment?

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

There is no harm in showing your feelings. It's not unmanly.

If it's an emotional chick-flick type of movie, chances are, I'm going to end up crying. I'm not afraid to admit that, because I think emotion is very healthy.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

I feel what I feel. If I wanna cry, I'm gonna cry - regardless of who watches me.

It's such a release to show yourself as not a charming person but just someone who is vulnerable.

I feel the dams of emotions open up more easily when one is acting.

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

I'm an emotional guy. It's as simple as that.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

I love to cry. It's great.

What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.