Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!
I felt I was owned by possessions.
When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.
I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.
I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises.
No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.
And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.
I went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn't live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren.
In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
When I think back, I felt like I had the life that a lot of white American kids grew up with in the suburbs in the States. I started noticing, as Apartheid's grip weakened, that we had more and more black kids at school; I had more and more black friends. But I never really saw a separation between myself and the black kids at school.
I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.
I've always felt a bit weird, very shy.
I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh when I was my best self and she looked at me like I could do no wrong and was whole. I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't. I remember her hand in mine and how that felt, as if something and someone belonged to me.
I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.
In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on.
That red carpet has to be felt to be believed.
A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening. . . we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.