Harlan Howard Quotes

It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned how to make feeling work for me... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.

I think you see in people's eyes what they've been through. Anything in their lives shows up in their eyes.

I was highly sensitive and still am, but as a kid I could tap into my emotional state rather easily.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into.

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

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.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

I can access emotions very easily.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.

I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

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.

After all the work I've done, I feel like I'm something of an emotion-smith. We have to tap into places on a daily basis that usually people only go in a rare occasion.

I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.

My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

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.