Subtle Emotions Quotes

I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.

What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so herself when her mother promised her something she really wanted but knew might not happen.

She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.

I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry.

I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.

as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.

I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing.

How does Love speak? In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek, And in the pallor that succeeds it; by The quivering lid of an averted eye-- The smile that proves the parent to a sigh Thus doth Love speak.

When you want some subtle emotions, you need some subtle vehicles for emotion.

My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!

Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.