#emotional

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama. ↗

— Sean Penn

#comedies #demands #done #draining #drama

Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional excitations, resulting in rigidity of the body, lack of emotional contact, "deadness". Functionally identical to muscular armor (chronic muscular spasms) ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#contact #deadness #emotional #emotions #fear

No act of love is ever wasted. ↗

— Geneen Roth

#emotional-hunger #love #experience

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#connections #direct #emotional #how #largely

I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows. ↗

— Chely Wright

#emotional #high #highs #i #knows

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#business #emotional #failure #fear #fuels

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#blues #emotional #had #outlet #people

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth. ↗

— Stuart Wilde

#emotional #experience #get #having #invest

A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept. ↗

— Kiran Desai

#dog #emotional #judge-patel #mutt #only-emotion

Watching St John rock his wife's body was not part of my job description. Honest. I sat down on the stairs where I could see the door, the hallway, and the stairs as far as the landing. St John started singing in a strange, broken voice. It took me a few minutes to figure out what he was singing. It was 'You are so Beautiful ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#beauty