Renata Adler Quotes

Real human emotion is always interesting.

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.

Having an authentic emotional response is always a positive thing.

I never utter my real feelings about anything. My lighter, superficial side will always be too quick for the deeper side of me, and that's why it always wins.

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

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

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

Nothing's wrong with honest emotion.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.

I get the best inspiration or the most creativity from real emotions.

Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

The things I tend to do best are the things that are the most overtly emotional, whether it's sentimental or whether it's celebratory or whether it's conflicted.

I approach everything the same. I try to make it as real as possible, whether you gotta make people laugh or make people cry, it's always the same approach for me. But if I start doing pratfalls, somebody please pull the plug on me.

There's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let things out. The best acting is that that is most real and the only way to do that, is to genuinely feel it.

Once you realize that what I’m saying is true and comes from the heart, then it’s easy. But if you see it all as a façade and just a presentation of affected emotion, then it’s not so easy, it’ll just confuse you.

I am only fond of what comes from the heart.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

I think everything needs to be played real, for reality's sake, for truth. And that is the drama and the comedy. When you do that, it's funnier. And when you do that, you really do hit the emotional beats. I do it the same way as I do a drama. I just play it for truth, and then maybe have a little bit of fun with it sometimes.

Acting is about being real, being honest.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete.

The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art.

I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.