LINDA HAMILTON

As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.

It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the situation is. Months and months and months go by and I know I need to switch to Shelley or somebody else, but right now Yeats is enough for me.

My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.

My journey has been so full of struggle and I just want to be able to offer some help and some general ideas to people that really need it the most.

Anybody not wearing a two-million sun block is gonna have a pretty bad day.

Sleep doesn't seem necessary. You wake up feeling great. But it's not all great feelings.

My quality of life is more amazing than I ever could've imagined in those 20 years of struggling with illness. In those 20 years, I did not know the meaning of the word hope. It was just a bleak, difficult existence. With all the gifts, with all the successes that I had, it was still an incredibly bleak way of living and I want to be a messenger of hope.

Feel the power of your legs, hear the orchestra playing, see the audience - anything to make the image more real. The image has to be specific. You can't just say to yourself, 'I'll do my best.' You have to have a mental blueprint of that role in your mind.

For people with mental illness, taking care of the body is not an automatic thing. The mind is in such chaos it's hard to come up with a plan. So to people like us, it's more important than ever to follow a regimen.

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

Being physically fit doesn't mean anything if the mind isn't fit and being fit in the mind is not worth much if the body is suffering.

The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

There is a definite correlation between the mind and the body.

I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it.

I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd be reading naked.

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

There is hope. You can do it. Start now.

I don't feel that any of my greatness has been covered over.

I recommend a balance between the therapies that are available, the medicines that are available but not to give up on the body as a result.

I think I existed on four hours sleep a night for four years.

Please don't mistake who I am for who the character is.

Exercise is an incredible key to feeling well.