Emotional Thrill Quotes

I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be.

It's extraordinary to hear waves of laughter after you've been playing something, night after night, to nothing. That's why I'm still hooked on acting: the terror of the possibility of things going wrong, the thrill when they go right, and the joy of the company.

Any time you learn something new about your character, that's really exciting.

I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much.

I'm not a horror fan. I'm an anti-horror fan. I think horror fans feel deep down in the pit of their souls, they feel safe, and therefore bored. And therefore they want to be scared.

The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.

My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.

When I was young and didn't have money, I liked gambling because winning and losing was fun for the rush of it.

Hosting the Emmys is a challenge for me. I guess it's the equivalent of someone who needs to climb a mountain or jump out of a plane. It's that kind of thing, where this could go terribly wrong. And I love the feeling of when it goes right.

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.

I like scaring myself.

I love challenge. I love to be afraid before a film, before acting. I think always I want to experience fear. I've become addicted to this feeling.

I was really excited when films like 'Kaala Paani,' 'Maachis,' 'Chandni Bar' and others came my way. The sheer fact that I would get to portray various emotions was thrilling.

Everybody likes a roller coaster ride.

Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.

I've never understood the appeal of feeling really scared. I know that people do find it really thrilling. For me, artistically, it needs to be worth the effort of me feeling uncomfortable watching it.

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

People come to the stadium to forget their lives for 90 minutes, and it's up to us to give them satisfaction; to get them out of their chairs and to fall asleep with stars in their eyes.

Finding out what people are really like is exciting.

I definitely love to be scared. It draws the primal side out of you.

I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an entertainer. He knows where to build the slopes, and the big anticipation when you go up... He makes you go, 'Oh my God!' when you get to the top before you come down. It's just the same as structuring a show or a dance.

I think, as a fan, when you are sitting there in the stadium you want to be on the edge of your seat.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn, when the air is crisp and the leaves are all flaring at the edges and the wind smells just vaguely of smoke - like the end and the beginning of something all at once.