Evan Rachel Wood Quotes

I still feel pressure - I'm sure everyone who plays feels pressure - but I don't feel it as much now as when I was younger.

If I read every comment on my YouTube videos, I'd go crazy with people that are saying negative things.

A lot of young coaches who respect the fact I have been doing it a long time, that is often their question: 'Does it get any easier? Can you relax more during the games? Can you take it all a little bit more philosophically and put it more in perspective?' The tragedy is that I have to tell them, 'No. If anything, it gets worse.'

I don't fear the sack, but I take results home with me. And when I don't win... I am no use to anybody because I get low.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

When I get hate mail, I get really down on myself, and I read it to my mom, and my mom is like, 'So what? Who cares? These people don't know you, so you can't take the praise or the hate to heart.'

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide.

I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.

It's really hard when people write nasty things about you all the time. As much as good things are said about you, it's always those one or two bad comments that really stay with you and gnaw at you. I try not to read that stuff if I can.

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

My happiness is very fragile.

I have learned how to better handle things as they come.

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.

The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

Our kids now face pressures that didn’t exist when I was growing up…. As parents, it’s very hard to help our children because their experiences are so different to anything we had.

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.

Remember that it's okay to get help, and it doesn't make you weak.