Lauren Shuler Donner Quotes

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when you're depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I'm a human being and every human being has problems.

I had a lot of downs too, it is no secret.

My problems aren't so different from anybody else.

Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.

I am just working on staying alive.

I'm like anybody else. You get enough, you can get beat up. You can get hurt. You can get frustrated. You can get demoralized.

All of us know someone who has been through difficult emotional times, and we know how hard it can be to see a way forward.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!

Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I've said many times, we're stronger than we think we are.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

People don't drop me with shots on the temple.