Robert Carlyle Quotes

...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.

I've never had a person come to me and say, 'I want to take down this person.' They come and say, 'I need help. This thing is killing me. It's weighing me down. It's sitting in the pit of my stomach.'

It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.

Folks working late, I had a babysitter. I ain't about to sit here and name her. I was almost 8 when she came in late, woke me up with a game to play. Did a few things that it's hard to say. Told me to keep that secret safe. I'm trying to act like it ain't real. Had my innocence just stripped from me, and I still don't know how to feel.

I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone. If he had committed suicide four years before, it would have been all right.

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.

I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.

There are things that can harm a lot more than physically.

I've seen the slip a few times. I don't have to watch something like that to go through the pain again and again and again.

It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.

...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.

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].

A study of the Great Malady; horror of home.

You can’t keep messing me around like this. It’s been going on too long. I can’t take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You’re like a disease to me.

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

Long live the car crash hearts Cry on the couch all the poets come to life Fix me in 45

Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.

The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock 'n roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.