John Malkovich Quotes

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!

Sometimes, I have played something that psychologically sticks with me, that's opposite of where I am. I guess I have a lot of anger in me.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.