Charlotte Rampling Quotes

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.

Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

If something comes from your heart, it will reach the heart of your audience.

There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying.

I think little things are more powerful because they're more honest, so people feel them more strongly.

I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as that. It's just like if you're watching something moving, and you feel yourself welling up. It's the same thing. You're just being carried along with the story. There's nothing magical about it. I think I'm in touch with my emotions, and I can't help it.

Our emotions resonate with each other - for better and for worse.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

If a reader comes across a story that makes them cry, you can be sure that the writer felt every single thing that makes the reader cry.

You do your best to tell your own story, in the most specific way, and then you hope that that travels well, when it's done with heart and honesty.

Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.

We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.

I approach everything the same. I try to make it as real as possible, whether you gotta make people laugh or make people cry, it's always the same approach for me. But if I start doing pratfalls, somebody please pull the plug on me.