Shannyn Sossamon Quotes

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.

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.

When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

I'm an emotional person, and I externalise my feelings a lot with some things, but I'm strong with others.

You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your palette.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

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.

When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

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.

Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.

Luckily, on 'Kyle XY,' I had great training in being tough and vulnerable at the same time.

The maximum number of emotions that I can cover is what I want to do.