Edmund H. North Quotes

Got an issue, get a tissue.

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.

As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.

It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.

I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.

I don't even like to cry in private.

Sometimes history reads like a catalogue of post-traumatic stress.

When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

I personally, generally, don't really feel much emotion if there's some problem and I'm actively solving it.

You find a lot out about people when they're blowing up, as we say, gasping for air, and if they can still hold conversations and be polite.

Every single thing I do... is just me surviving.

In 'The Darkest Minds,' Zu's trauma manifests in her choosing to remain silent. It's her one small way she can feel in control of her otherwise uncontrollable situation.

I'm pathologically calm.

The emotions can take you out of a game.

I don't have time for heartache or problems, especially drama.