Cindy Sherman Quotes

Sometimes you need to break away from something in order to know how much you need or want it.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

I find in myself a need to get very away.

I needed to run away in order to come home.

I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.

The thing I love about acting is that it's got nothing to do with me; it's about bringing forth a director's vision. It's like a release. I'm glad it's come back into my life.

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now I was free. There was such a glory through the trees and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.

The President is suffering from nervous exhaustion….He needs to rest for a considerable time.

My feets is weary, but my soul is rested.

I am heartedly tired of this life of bondage, responsibility, and toil.

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.

I really would love to take a big break and not be photographed, not perform.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

At the end of the day, I'm out of here - above anything.

Watching myself. Watching the people around me. There was some part of me that was there as a kid and growing up and living my life, but there was also some part of me that was watching it all happen from the nosebleeds.

Most of the time, I'm making music. There'll be moments of my life where I feel like I gotta to take a break and come back to the music. It's hard to explain, but you need to get a break from it and then come back to it. It's like you gotta lose something to appreciate it.

Just getting away from the game, getting away from basketball was a good thing for me.

Every day I wake up in Paris, it's real tranquillity. No pressure. I'm out of the grasp of people. I don't have a phone, and I drift a little bit.

Those reflective moments for me usually come from loneliness and separation from people.

We did 10 years of working and travelling constantly, and we were just knackered. I thought: 'I've got to take a break.' I felt like I was going mad. I decided to move to Cornwall.

I believe every artiste, at some point, needs to take a step back.

I like to come home and completely forget about work.

Sometimes I flashback and say, 'Wow I'm still doing this. Wow, it's crazy.' And I'm very thankful, but I think my body needs a rest.