Venus Williams Quotes

I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

You have to pay attention to the moments when you've felt on top on the world. I remember the first time I was on stage, I was doing 'West Side Story,' I was 17 and this woman was crying because she liked what I was doing so much.

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

I am a late discoverer of 'Friday Night Lights.' I cry every episode at least once. I love to cry - happy, emotional tears. I just love it.

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

I like the minute when I can get off the stage and go home, and I know I've done a good job.

The night I won the Emmy, I probably cried for three hours on and off.

When I found out I'd won Book of the Year, the first person I called was my mum, who was so happy she cried on the phone. I did a bit too to be honest.

'The Reckoning' is one of my proudest hours. I love that episode so much.

When you reach the moment to score, it is like liberating different emotions such as joy, happiness, and also satisfaction.

My Olympic moment from the individual event was that I was really able to enjoy my skating, and so that meant a lot to me, and I didn't portray that accurately.

'Bodies' remains the drama I'm most proud of.

I'm proud of my works. But there's not one thing that I can put my finger on and say, "That is my greatest achievement. That's my proudest moment." That's so tricky to me.

Sometimes I stand there going, 'I'm not doing any of this right!' And then I get this big man belch out of her, and I go, 'Ah, we accomplished this together.'

I haven't felt the way I feel today in so long.

Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves to other people. You are not inferior or superior to any human being...You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are 'number one' when you do the best you can with what you have.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

Hate comes from Intimidation. Love comes from Appreciation.

I like poems that affect me emotionally and also provoke me to further, deeper thought. I enjoy challenge, but not, I think, for its own sake.

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.