Dougray Scott Quotes

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings.

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.

I think irony precludes really feeling deeply about anything. I just didn't want to be that kind of writer who found nothing that wasn't worth indictment. I admire Willa Cather so much because she was unafraid to have big feelings and put them on the page. I just want to be able to believe in things.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.

I can access emotions very easily.

I'm not a theatrics guy who does things for effect. Whatever comes out is what I feel. It just comes out.

I never smile unless I mean it.

I live my life pretty emotionally, for better and for worse. I'm pretty thin-skinned and transparent. I lead with my heart, and I wanted to make a movie that did the same.

Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.

If Rihanna stripped it all down morally rather than with her clothes, perhaps we'd get closer to Nina Simone. She's talented, but all we want is to sing the truth. If Britney Spears was to sing closer to her heart, she might have been the new Bobby Gentry or Dolly Parton.

Write what you really care about. Write what you want to say because that is the experience that always rates as genuine on the page.

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 like grit. I like love and death. I'm tired of irony.

I'm acting from my heart. The way how I feel is the way how I act.

I just wanted Sadness to be true, to come from a real place. I tried to work from the inside out, going from my gut all the time. I didn't over-analyze it. I just did it.

Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

Richard Pryor had real sincere and vulnerable moments.