The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don’t dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

Becoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Love is an interesting thing.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

I love Steve Carell.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.

If you look at me in ‚Ride Along,‘ even though I’m playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I’ll read C. Fred Bergsten’s defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It’s embarrassing to admit.

Looking back on the production of ‚Nevermind,‘ I’m embarrassed by it now. It’s closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

I’ll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

I am capable of holding the quote-unquote ‚title‘ of leading man. Leading man just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he’s Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I’m a big fan of his.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?