Fairuza Balk Quotes

My wife would probably tell you I'm quite a dark person all the time!

I'm probably the most negative person around.

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

I think I am pretty much melancholic.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.

There's a strong melancholic streak in me.

I'm not a positive guy.

I'm sort of a negative guy.

I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.

I don't know if I'm supposed to say this, but probably not... I was a really cynical child.

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.

I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

More and more, people probably associate me in this world of comedy and these confident, brassy, big ladies, which I love, but my insides and who I feel like internally and the kind of work that I hope to continue doing feels very different from that.

I have that glass-half-empty syndrome, and it takes a great deal of effort to climb out of the hole of darkness that I choose to live in mentally.

As a Scandinavian, I like hopelessness and the weird austerity in the hopelessness of things.

I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.

I don't really have a shell. I'm really not as quiet as people think I am. I'm really not that quiet. But I don't know, I would say I'm more observant.

I'm English, so I can be very 'half empty.'

The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.