Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.
I fight on emotions. When I don't fight on emotions, I don't fight well. I fight on emotion, because I'm in for survival.
Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.
Stand-up comedy is a lot about amplifying emotions and situations; movie acting has a lot to do with mellowing things down and making them subtle. The transition was almost terrifying because of the magnitude of change.
Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
Playing Dahmer, there were ups and downs. It wasn't all dark, all the time. I felt a wide range of emotions.
The concept of 'DAM999' is very interesting, which director Sohan Roy has written. The entire idea was to capture or encapsulate the nine rasas depicting different human emotions in the backdrop of dam disaster.
We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, want, magic - of missing people, avoid others - like loneliness.
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.
The power I would like is to be able to turn off negative emotions and bad moods with the flick of a switch.
To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.
I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
I think melancholy is kind of a misunderstood emotion. I don't think it's necessarily an unpleasant or bad emotion.
I think what I was unconsciously expressing in 'Black Rainbow' was a very abstract and metaphorical grief, in the way I had suppressed my grief about my mother dying. In retrospect I realise I started writing 'Mandy' as a sort of antidote to that, to sort of express those emotions, to purge that grief.