Keira Knightley Quotes

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.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world.

People like my honesty. When I'm sane, I'm very much myself.

I was forced, more or less, to go to anger management. I was either going to make myself and everyone around me miserable, or I was going to realize that there's more than one person on this Earth. It definitely has made me a better person.

I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.

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

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.

Scientology helps you lose your insanities. One of the keys is, they say, 'You're in charge of your life, buster. You're responsible for any condition you're in.' If I look at it that way, it helps.

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.

If you're an actor, and you're selfish and not strong, it's difficult to maintain a good personal life or a solid career, and I was selfish and had a lot of anger that went way back.

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.