Benji Hughes Quotes

I'm a very sensitive person by nature. Things move me very easily, like music or videos on Facebook, and I feel for people.

Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have experienced the exact thing that person has experienced, but whatever you have in your life that has gotten you to that place is usually enough.

I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent.

My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.

I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

I am either blessed or cursed with having little barrier between feeling emotions and displaying them for all to see. My heart is on my sleeve. It's not comfortable but...I am an artist so it's useful and my friends are used to me getting teary at any moment. So, it just runs through me and I know it will continue to, but my best source of grounding are animals and nature. Animals live more in the moment and don't worry so much! And nature is proof of a greater power than myself. Both put things in perspective, or at least gently move us forward.

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.

I'm very, very in touch with my emotions.

You need emotional content.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

I think it's always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don't want to pretend.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.