Emotional Nuance Quotes

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

In any relationship, there's multiple moving pieces. Not just one.

I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.

For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.

My music puts people in a dreamy mood. It's edgy. It's nuanced. I get annoyed when people say it's R&B because it's not that simple. I call it futuristic soul.

When I'm doing a drama, I like to find the comedy; when I'm doing a comedy, I like to find the heart and drama.

Things don't always tie up in a nice bow. Even when you make strides with people and relationships, it's complicated.

I don't wanna make something depressing, I wanna make something sorrowful.

You really have to take your time; you have to know your character and your scene. The line you are about to say comes from the moment right before. It's not what's said, it's what is in between the spaces, it's what's in between the lines; that is the most important to play.

I have learned to write about things that are personal without objectifying anybody or anything, and that's been an important lesson for me. It's useful not to dump on people while simultaneously expressing a truth or a feeling if it's necessary, without diluting the intensity of the lyric.

I think conflicted characters are always more interesting.

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed with the fact that I try to find an element of sensitivity in every character I play. People enjoy seeing that because it goes against what we're led to expect as far as the way men are supposed to be - macho and all that.

Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.

The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.

You cannot measure the minute nuance that makes the difference between being happy and unhappy at work.

Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration. Mirror Sadness. Sadness of Domesticated Birds. Sadness of Being Sad in front of One's Parent. Humor Sadness. Sadness of Love Without Release.

The thing I don't want to do as a film composer is reiterate. I prefer to subtextualize or to underline rather than to say, 'This is what you should be feeling.'

The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

I was once told by a very well-respected editor, "Category horror is about good vs. evil, that's all it is." And I thought, "That's why it's no good. That's why I find that stuff unreadable." One is looking for something that's a little more emotionally complex and nuanced.