Performances Quote by Lasse Hallstrom

If you're striving for strong emotion and strong sentiment, and you're authentic with it and honest with it, then you're on the right side…

— Lasse Hallstrom

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

— Doris Lessing

In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as…

— Ridley Scott

It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with…

— Charles Baxter

I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things…

— Robert Palmer

It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

— Jean-Pierre Dardenne

I tend to be hypercritical of my performances. That's why I hate watching them with people I know.

— Jill Flint

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to…

— Judith Guest

When I see an emotion being enacted by a great actor, I always feel I can never do that.

— Naseeruddin Shah

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

— James Joyce

I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too…

— Zooey Deschanel