Dave Checketts Quotes

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.

I was very lucky that I didn't end up a basket case.

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

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

All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

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

Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.

I've been through hell not totally unscathed, but I came out not too bad.

People go through so much in life - financially, physically, mentally, and emotionally. So I don't look at the ups and downs as anything but a negligible area.

My demons are not that easy to shake.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

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.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.