Alice Ripley Quotes

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

I am the kind of guy who wears his heart on his sleeve.

Some people wear their heart on their sleeve; I do that in more ways than one.

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm human, and everything doesn't go right all the time.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No one really does anger these days. I suppose it's a turn-off.

I just wanted Sadness to be true, to come from a real place. I tried to work from the inside out, going from my gut all the time. I didn't over-analyze it. I just did it.

I feel what I feel. If I wanna cry, I'm gonna cry - regardless of who watches me.

I don't temper how I feel. I'm Greek. I've got emotions.

I am known to wear my heart on my sleeves.

I wear my heart on my sleeve and tell you how it is.

I think the problem is I really wear my heart on my sleeve, so when I like someone I tell them how it is.

I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.

Emotional sounds don't lie.

I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.

If I have got a feeling or emotion, I just express it as it comes. I am not good at filtering!

Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.

The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art.