Paul Bettany Quotes

I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.

I cry at films and TV and even adverts.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

I'm sentimental to a fault.

I get too upset by online criticism.

I am very sensitive and get emotional.

Well, I'm just a really sentimental person, and I just get leveled by things so easily, like from films, to personal interactions, to memories, to music.

I cried watching 'Million Dollar Baby.' I'm a big baby, man.

I'm not one to wallow, but I am one to feel the sting of a slap for a while, I think.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.

I'm happy to announce to the world that I'm a crier. It doesn't take a lot for me to cry at stuff.

I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about the exterior of the human face, so vast and palpable, with the eyes and the lips: it is all writ too large for me, too immediate for me.)

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. That is where the kingdom of hell is, too.

No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.

With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.

You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.

You might be a redneck if you're moved to tears every time you hear Dolly Parton singing I Will Always Love You.