Ana Ortiz Quotes

I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So when I sing, 'Leave (Get Out),' I have been through that. I think it is just a new generation, whether people are ready for it or not. Teenagers are dating.

I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was. I was much more terrified by my own family and real life, you know?

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.

My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn't my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.

I began to use my sensitivity. And I realized I wasn't weird because I cried a lot.

I identify with Sad Girls.

My father was always much more willing to laugh than to go to the darkness.

There's moments I go through day to day because I'm human. I think the diversity in my music is going to help people relate to that.

My father didn't believe in my music. I don't blame him.

I like myself better when I'm with you.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

My poems - like my family life, my life with friends, my teaching - these things express who I am. I don't feel any extra responsibilities or relishes or necessary evils in them. They are part of who I am, with all of those customary desires and doubts, purposes and confusions that come along with being a particular person.

From depression to ceiling fans, I've been through it all. I've taken almost every step that life has to offer and invariably I've found several different endings to my Choose Your Own Adventure stories. I've lived, loved, sacrificed and scraped for this existence, this paltry little city state I call my time so far. And by God, I wouldn't change a single frame of this movie.

You will not believe me, but I am proud of your strength. Sometimes. . . sometimes the only way I can care for my children is to keep my distance.