James Norton Quotes

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

It’s hard to absorb the horrors of the world on a daily basis.

It wears on your soul when you take on the mental state of a dark character.

The 'Demon King' takes out a lot out of Finn Balor the man emotionally and mentally.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.

I think you can get so mentally beat by kind of working yourself up too much.

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

When you are mad at yourself, you are mad at everybody.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

If you live around dummies and fake blood for six months, it becomes a part of you. It's fake blood, but sometimes I still feel the real scent of blood, so it's more mentally collapsing, not only physical.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

These visits make me sick, and I really think they will make me crazy.

Physically, it is very demanding as an actor, and I don't want to put a lot of focus on that, but I think it is emotionally and mentally a lot more... It can completely twist you... We abandon ourselves for days and months, and by the end of it, we are twisted people which you make fun of.

To say I am not mentally tired in ways and exhausted in ways would be a lie.

I think I understand why most actors and actresses are insane, because having to go through an emotional roller coaster as your job every day of your life would make somebody absolutely loopy.

'Taramani' was a very emotionally draining film for me.

When a person is juggling a lot of emotions in a single day, it can take a toll.

It was hard not to feel violated [in Stone movie], 'cause I have to go home after walking in these shoes all day. It plays a number on your head. Some days I came home and was really upset; it was hard to see the baby [Jovovich's 2-year-old daughter].

You know the theory of cell irritability? If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba, the cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That's kind of what it's like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop.

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.

Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

I was one of those people raised by a woman who was what I call a prisoner of war. She was captured, she didn't want to be there, she was unhappy, she was banging away in the kitchen, the way that a prisoner would bang on her jail cell, you know, really unhappy. She had to cook for nine people with really little money, so she really just got burned out. So I didn't know that you could actually cook and it would be calming, pleasurable.