Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes

I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know, and all I can do, is what I feel.

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

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.

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.

Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

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

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.

I'm a pretty emotional person.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

I'm an emotional person, a very emotional person.

And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.

I'm a very emotional person.

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

These are the two sides of Steven Spielberg: the reverent grown-up who knows when to say the right thing and the exuberant kid who loves a good laugh. Both sides are sincere, and both are necessary, for Spielberg knows he can't feel good about himself unless everyone else feels the same way.

We're not whole people if we're just one emotion. On any given day, you can be happy, sad, angry, and so on... As you mature, you just learn to deal with each one of those emotions.

It's fun playing a more feminine part. I can identify more with a woman of passion and emotion than with a cartoon character. Who knows what a cartoon feels?

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them. You no longer leave conversations wondering what just happened. Other people's minds and motives are finally revealed.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?