American Quotes

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

I don't want to be a victim.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.

You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.