Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

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

I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.

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.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart -I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.

The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.

I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

I feel everything very strongly, and I find that when I sing through music, it helps me connect to people.

'Hedwig' isn't particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion.

The things I tend to do best are the things that are the most overtly emotional, whether it's sentimental or whether it's celebratory or whether it's conflicted.

I've always been in my own world, even as a young girl. But I fell in love with music because it made me feel something that I can't explain.

Vulnerability is important in life, I feel. That's what allows you to experience intense emotions, whether it's joy or pain or sadness.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

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

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

I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other things I have to hone. I can swim in that comfortably.