Emotional Necessity Quotes

I feel like with acting it's not like you make a choice - it's kind of in you and you have to do it or you wouldn't be able to survive.

I no longer think you can live without passion.

Songwriting isn't a choice. You're either called upon to bear the burden, or you're not. It's not all fun and games.

I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.

I couldn't live without something that touches my heart. No one should.

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.

I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that - but that they insist every word and deed mirror that ice. They never learn the beauty or value of gesture. The emotional necessity. For them, it is all honesty before kindness, truth before art. Love is art, not truth. It's like painting scenery.

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

Music for me is an emotional necessity. It's therapy. It's what I live and breathe.

I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need.

People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid.

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.

But not to have music would be unnatural to me.

Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.

It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.

It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.

t is for me because I needed to do this. I really think actors shouldn't act unless they really need it in their lives. I think it has to be something that is so much a part of your chemistry, such a passion, that you can't live without it. You should not do it just because you are seeking fame or want to get rich.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.