Genuine Feeling Quotes

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.

I actually care about things, and I care about people.

Don't hide your goosebumps.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

With acting, a lot of it has to come from that real, honest place.

If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Granted, patriotism is not a tonic that can be forced down people's throats.

Music's supposed to be real. When it really touches you, it's supposed to be real.

Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

Real human emotion is always interesting.

It's the most personal thing that I do is sing. Because I can't tell a lie. I want them to know exactly what I'm feeling.

I'm really happy. Really!

There's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let things out. The best acting is that that is most real and the only way to do that, is to genuinely feel it.

I am only fond of what comes from the heart.

His music was direct from his heart and brain in the purest form possible.

Nothing's wrong with honest emotion.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.

What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

The more I have a sincere connection to something, the less acting is required. And the more it's about creating the space to feel that connection and to feel that shift from yourself. And start interpreting things through new eyes.

Having an authentic emotional response is always a positive thing.

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?

Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.