Real Emotion Quotes

• It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?

  Vin Diesel

  Real, People, Interesting

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• Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.

  George Eads

  Real, Thinking, Littles

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• Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

  George Henry Lewes

  Beautiful, Real, Moving

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Real, Patterns, Emotion

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• I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up
  listening to Beatles records on my floor. That's how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be a musician.

  Dave Grohl

  Sports, Real, Thinking

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• I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

  Pixie Lott

  Song, Real, Thinking

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• I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.

  Anne Stevenson

  Real, Mean, Simple

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• Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.

  Jim Carrey

  Real, Thinking, Special

  "This Much I Know". Interview with Tony Horkins, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2008.

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• Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.

  Harriet Lerner

  Attitude, Real, Mean

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1996). “Life preservers: staying afloat in love and life”

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• The hardest thing about being a guy is that women don't accept that you really are just a simple, pathetic, labrador retriever-like creature. That we live in a world were women actually expect you to think thoughtful thoughts, and have real emotions, which we don't have. Having to try to live up to the imaginary ideal that women have of what men are, instead of just being what you are, which is just a pathetic creature, but still.

  Dave Barry

  Real, Thoughtful, Simple

  Interview with McClain Johnson, mcclainjohnson.com.

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• There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?

  Paolo Sorrentino

  Hate, Real, Heart

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• I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.

  John Lennon

  Teenage, Real, Writing

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• When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.

  David Lynch

  Real, Cinema, Emotion

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• Real emotion transcends language. You dont have to understand their words 
         to feel their pain.

  Julia Roberts

  Pain, Real, Emotion

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• Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional place. You hear a song, and that memory comes right back-- you're there... Making music is immediate, and it's all about you. If you're playing guitar, the feeling comes through-- the way you bend the note, the intensity with which you hit the strings. With making films, although it's real emotion, it's false emotion. You're lying.

  Johnny Depp

  Song, Jesus, Memories

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• I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"

  John Lasseter

  Movie, Real, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don't really need to pretend, because it's who I am, an emotional vampire. I've just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people's real emotions. Search for this night's prey. Who will it be?

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Letting Go, Real, Past

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jul 27, 2011

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• A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental. People who dismiss all real emotion as sentimentality are cowards. They’re afraid to commit themselves, and so they remain ‘cool’ for the rest of their lives, until they’re dead—then they’re really cool.

  Mark Helprin

  Hate, Real, Hero

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• After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Real, Sides, Emotion

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• I guess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you're in it, you think it'll go on forever but it never really lasts half what you think. Not in terms of real time. In terms of real emotions, it's worse than you think, but not by the clock.

  William Goldman

  Real, Thinking, Forever

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.285, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Feelings aren't good or bad. They're just weak or strong. Love, for example, is weak: someone loves you, you love them back, you're happy for a while, and then it fades away. But if one of those lovers betrays the other, then you have a real emotion - then you have something powerful, something that leaves a mark you'll never be rid of. Betrayal is the most delicious of all, but it takes a while to set it up, and fear can be just as intense if you know what you're doing.

  Dan Wells

  Strong, Powerful, Betrayal

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• They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die.

  Jane Yolen

  Real, Thinking, Talking

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• Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

  Marco Tempest

  Art, Real, Lying

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• It's still a lean back, enjoy or a lean forward, be involved, enjoy medium. It's real engagement, real emotion.

  Christopher Locke

  Real, Engagement, Emotion

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• You made me feel real emotions. You unlocked me.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Real, Emotion, Made

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