Olivia Colman Quotes

I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.

There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way.

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

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.

I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

I was an emotional basket case.

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

After two kids, I hit the pillow and go straight to sleep.

I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.

Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.