Liam Neeson Quotes

I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected.

I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives - a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay.

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

You can't express emotion without giving information.

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.

Men are not usually forthcoming in the expression of their emotions.

Some people can't connect with their own emotions.

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

We all are scared. First of all, as a culture, we're constantly told that if you start to express yourself or express your needs, you're needy. You're too emotional. And they put all these negative connotations on it. That has started since we were kids, especially for men.

The way I look at it, I'm more of a man because I'm in touch with my emotions. I think people that deny their emotions are pretty weak individuals, if you want my honest opinion.

I'm not very good at talking about my emotions.

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things. You're supposed to laugh, you're supposed to cry, you're not supposed to shove your feelings under the rug.

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.

For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

Son, feelings are what women have. They come from their ovaries.

I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony.

When Nancy Reagan was presented with people who she really felt like weren't going to judge her, there was such a floodgate of affection and warmth and physical affection that, most of the time, was kept at bay because, "Oh, someone's going to say something." I think that because of so many things that happened to her in her childhood, but also in the press.

I think some of those guys might actually be better off if they had more wussy in them.

The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people.

I think it's always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don't want to pretend.

A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

I hate a macho sort who doesn't cry. They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they? They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they?