James Wolk Quotes

Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?

I try not to be overly nostalgic, and I don't use nostalgia to be kitschy.

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

He looks like a woman coach sometimes. I guess he's just trying to get into certain people's heads, but it won't work with me. Like a woman who coaches and cries all the time. He can't get in my head. He's a crybaby.

If I find myself being too earnest and sentimental and hyperbolic and simplistic, which is definitely a tendency I have, then I bring in this perverse henchman.

I'm kinda rather make people laugh I guess or cry or whatever but bragging about what I have for me personally uncharacteristic I guess.

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.

some choices you make with your heart some with your head but when in doubt choose head over heart.... it will keep you alive. -merry gentry

Never get involved with someone who wants to change you

It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.

I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.

Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntarily.

Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.

Don't hoo, hoo, hoo me. There's a fine line between hoo, hoo, hoo and hiel, hiel, hiel.

I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time.

If you're striving for strong emotion and strong sentiment, and you're authentic with it and honest with it, then you're on the right side of the line. But if you step into sentimentality, there is a false move or a false tone to it.

Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy!

There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.

He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

I'm a loving drunk. I get sentimental. "I love you guys." I drunk-dial a lot.