True Emotions Quotes

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

Is it possible to say what one really feels?

It's always a nice feeling, having people think that you feel things much deeper than you're allowed to say, but this isn't true. If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.

The fans are probably the only thing I can really see that's real.

So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.

I am only fond of what comes from the heart.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

The hearts letter is read in the eyes.

One of the things that defines a country song for me is that it's honest. It's not putting on a tuxedo to go eat at the Burger King. It's about a song being emotionally true to itself.

In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.

Let your words be the genuine picture of your heart.

The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

I can't pretend that I'm happy or pretend to get emotional when I'm not.

When you act, it's better not to fake the emotion. It's better to find the emotion within yourself and your experiences, and see if you can bring that back to the surface, so that you can then literally hand it off to the character, and then let him run with it.

It's sort of like a mockery in a way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers when there is something bitter to taste. And to pretend there isn't is foolish. I mean the ones that wonder around and know, at the same time, and yet wear flowers, and they deserve to wear flowers. And they've earned their smile...you can tell by people's eyes.

I like real people. I like real things.

Said I loved you but I lied, cause this is more than love I feel inside.

For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul.

In the end, there probably isn't much difference between being in love and acting like you're in love.

Feelings don't lie.

Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.