Lana Condor Quotes

I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected.

Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.

It's easy for me to cry. I'm just emotionally tuned in to stuff. It probably helps with my songwriting.

Women can be quite intimate emotionally - they're very emotionally available.

I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.

But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.

I'm a very emotional person, and I love feeling things, so I tend to approach things kind of openly.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

I'm insane, I'm emotional, but I'd rather be that than a robot. So that's definitely something that I wanted to get out there. Especially with Cry Baby's story, because the album is about Cry Baby but I realized that me and her went through the same change.

If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human.

I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.

May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.

Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface.

People think I am unemotional because my voice is flat and a bit boring. It is unfortunate but it is just the way it is. I've tried to change it but it doesn't seem to make a difference. The truth is, I have lots of emotions inside. I cried after the semi-final at Wimbledon [2012] because I was proud to reach the final and I knew how much it meant to the country. I cried after the [losing] final [to Federer], too, for different reasons. I felt I had let people down. I think people warmed to that. They could see how much it hurt.

I recently rewatched Stand By Me and was like, "Wow, this is so powerful because these young men are so vulnerable and so emotional, and love each other." That's a rare quality for a film.

If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.

It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.