Inzamam-ul-Haq Quotes

Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

With my divorce, and even during the end of my marriage before it even got publicly bad, how I decided to cope with things was to go on the treadmill for an hour.

I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

People can have a variety of concerns at the same time. Even those undergoing grave or traumatic experiences will acknowledge the need for lightness or even entertainment.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

I learned certain exercises to help me cope, to get myself in tip-top mental shape to deal with auditions and rejection.

What do you do when your world is falling apart? How do you hold onto the real and the rational? I think that's very relatable for people.

I think we all have mechanisms that we use, each of us individually, to deal with pain that we've had or just dealing with life or whatever. Everyone's story is different, but we all have some kind of mechanism that we use to deal with stuff, that we create pretty young.

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

I believe that if I come home from a stressful day on the set, I just have to leave it there.

You're not always happy with things that go on in life on a daily basis. There's nothing I can do. You've got to deal with it and still take care of myself.

I react to stress badly. I handle it better these days. But I'm a very straightforward person.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

Everybody burns out in this world; amateur, pro, it doesn't matter, they all burn out, they all get hurt, the OK guys and the not-OK guys both. That's why everybody takes out a little insurance. I've got some too, here at the bottom of the heap. That way, you manage to survive if you burn out. If you're all by yourself and don't belong anywhere, you go down once, and you're out. Finished.

Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?

It's very rare that people let me hop off the crazy wagon.

It's kind of a little fly-on-the-wall look at these people trying to stay sane.

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

I've found that a combination of therapy and medication, along with lifestyle choices like eating better and exercising regularly, helps me cope well with my anxiety.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

I don't get ulcers. I give 'em.

When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.

There are times when I think, 'Do I have the energy to be upset?' and the answer is 'no.'