Emotional Involvement Quotes

My problem is, whether it's for emotion or for the talents that a character has to have in a role, I find it very difficult to not take on a challenge. For instance, 'Phantom Of The Opera,' in truth, scared the crap out of me, but I wasn't going to walk away and say, 'I didn't do that because I didn't believe in myself.'

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

Did you really think I'd ceased to care? Kitten, I care so much it wrecks me.

You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time.

Sweet bleedin’ Christ,” Bones interrupted. “Try not to let this turn you into a Ghost Whisperer, hmm? Adopting Fabian is one thing, but we’re already turning away spooks by the dozen. If you want another pet, we’ll get you more cats.

I've seen films that have made as much as $100, $200 million, but they're not films. They're images. They're flashes. They're many beautiful images, lots of things to look at. They capture you. But it's not a film. It's not something that involves you in a story. They go to cinema now to be blown away by the effects.

This question about Iraq has gotten personal.

You don't want to just preach to people; you want to get them emotionally involved, and I think you do that with a wonderful human story about one person's struggle.

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

It's very strange to become a character: the lines get blurred, and you start to sort of, I don't know, take it home too much?

Being on the outside of something, watching someone make a risky decision, it's so easy to judge someone for that. But when you're in it, it's impossible to see it.

Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

Getting the player emotionally involved is the holy grail. We try to make players forget they're playing a game. We want them to live the experience and suspend disbelief.

Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.

When you do something as long as I have, you obviously love the sport - although not everything about the sport.

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.

Don't be fair, be engaged.

Maybe that's partly why I'm an actor, I'm a fairly empathetic, emotional person, so I get very, very involved when it's really, really great when I'm watching - so it takes me a second to click back into reality again.