James Gray Quotes

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

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.

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'

I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.

You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

Nothing's wrong with honest emotion.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

I've never been that comfortable with the acting thing. It's difficult for me to separate what's really going on. If there's kissing, that's kissing. I'm not acting; I don't know how.

I generally make a point to finish my shot in the initial couple of takes with the goal that the execution would be genuine, and it naturally makes a great deal of strain.

The most important club in the world is Tottenham. And it is the best club in the world. I need to feel like this, and that emotion is real because I cannot be fake. It's too difficult to create the trust if you don't really believe, and it's not real, that emotion.

What good were real feelings anyway?

Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower.

You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.

emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.

The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible.

Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.

I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.