Emotional Triggers Quotes

You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes.

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.

Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'

I don't get a chance to cry that often on film, so I was hoping that talent would come my way, that day. I cheated, I guess, when I just started looking at my technology device - my iPhone - to look at pictures of my kids, before I did the scene where I had to cry. That was a good trick that I found.

Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

I have not been diagnosed with epilepsy. I did have an MRI of the brain, and they found no abnormalities in my brain. Now, there are people with epilepsy who have completely normal MRI's, too. I just think also, you know, epileptic seizures can be triggered by emotional stress, by all kinds of things, lights.

I'm not interested in how people move; I'm interested in what makes them move.

I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

The solution to putting an end to bullying is to stop it at the source but also to find out what is causing the person to behave the way that they do.

William Regal once told us he people-watched when he was in the ring. He would see things that people would do. And if they annoyed him, chances are they would annoy someone else. A lot of times I'll just people watch when I'm traveling or at the airport or living everyday life.

Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.

Anger is a call for awareness.

Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.

If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

The things that make you most mad about the world tend to be the things that you hate in yourself.

I'm at an age where crying is easier for me now. I like it. I can cry at a poignant commercial; I can cry at a - this is a running joke in my house, but... a good 'Star-Spangled Banner' can make me cry. I'm not kidding.

Being surrounded by supermodels' bodies was triggering to me.

Years later, you can hear a song, and it brings you back right to that moment, what was happening at that time, whether it was a relationship or a difficult time, or maybe a great time in your life, and you had that album you were listening to. Twenty years later, you can put on that song you fell in love to or your heart was broken to, and you hear that song and it brings you right back there. I think music is the most powerful tool we have.

The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.

are memories pictures or the secret doorway?

Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.