Controlled Emotion Quotes

Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best performance and is necessary, but it must be controlled. I believe Fedor [Emelianenko] does that. I do too. We may look different in how we do it, but we both do it.

Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.

You have to have some level of attachment, you can still have passion and believe but it has to be softened somewhat.

Singing is basically a form of pleasant, controlled screaming.

As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

I love being kind of reserved and serious and then having these explosions of passion when it comes time to perform.