Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.

I like to play different ranges. When you get really deeply involved in the emotional parts, I enjoy that just as much as the fun and laughter.

If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.

I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness.

I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know, it's nice to make people laugh sometimes.

There's music to dance to and make love to, music to cry to. I'm starting from scratch, coming fresh. But my sound still embodies the same soulful, intricate harmonies.

Sometimes my friends and I are silly and sometimes we're serious, and sometimes we're emotional, and sometimes we're not.

Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion.

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.

For an actor, for me, I love being able to tap into just heavy emotions. I don't need to be balling in every scene, but I just love to feel different emotions when heading to set. It's a lot of fun to play with.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.

Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for it takes up more place in the mind than it does in bed. Outside of that setting it falls flat into one-dimensional fiction.

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.

It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.

The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.

Saying "I love you" makes a demand, but creates no obligations.

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

I am not attracted to writers by style. What style do Dickens, Grass, and Vonnegut have in common? How silly! I am attracted to what makes them angry, what makes them passionate, what outrages them, what they applaud and find sympathetic in human beings and what they detest about human beings, too. They are writers of great emotional range.

As an actor playing a character, you look for all of those avenues to see if there's any sense of vulnerability or love that you can bring to a character, and decide how that's portrayed and how that's going to be a struggle with the other characters. It's your job to take that on and challenge yourself, and meet that head on and see what happens with it.

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 know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

It's easiest to write songs when I'm either really in love or really mad at a guy. It's just always best when I'm feeling superemotional.

All songs have a message whether it's I love you, do you love me or this government sucks in a basic format and then you expand upon your beliefs and your thinking process about what's going on around you in the world.