Robin Wright Quotes

The business of Hollywood, if you don't have other things going on, it will eat you up and spit you out... If you take what those people and that social structure think of you - if you let it govern your life - you might as well just kill yourself.

People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life.' It's not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.

Usually, the 24-hour, high-maintenance celebrity lifestyle can disconnect people from reality.

Yes, I was on the cover of 'Vogue,' but girls on the cover of 'Vogue' are the most scared of rejection. Models are the most insecure of them all. Actually, actors and actresses are, and then musicians, and then models!

There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

Fame made me develop a panic disorder.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

Hollywood is an image. We project these fantasies on to it, but people are just people.

Sometimes I'm like, man, I wish I'd just fall off, so people stop talking about me.

I believe that sometimes, when you start out at 18 years of age on the red carpet, it can make you think, 'This is normal, this is easy.'

I worry about not being able to be myself day to day. But I know people way more famous than me who have been able to do that.

People see the celebrity lifestyle and assume everything is perfect, but we're just like everyone else.

You can find yourself doubting yourself. But that's when you need to keep faith and realise everything is going to be okay. You work hard in training and keep doing the things you're good at.

If you aren't hot in Hollywood, you feel like you're in Siberia.

I panicked in my 20s and 30s about whether I was doing the right thing. I was an excited puppy, wanting to please people and feeling guilty that I'd had a privileged education and an acting career.

What people have trouble getting their head around is the idea that a celebrity, somebody whom they admire, somebody who seems to have everything, would even be depressed.

I think women let themselves be burdened by failures much more than men do. They agonize - and I do it a lot, too - and rethink them.