Allison Janney Quotes

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.

People have good and bad days.

Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

Well, I'd say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I don't go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.

You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song.

The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

There are times in my life where I'm frantic and I think to myself, 'Okay, what would Raven do now?' As dumb as that sounds, it's in my head.

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.

I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.

I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Every movie I do, I always use things that have happened in my life. Funny moments, anything. If it just sticks out I'll write it down and use that, too, because it has to come out of you. But no one can work when they're depressed. I don't think I'd physically be able to do it if I were depressed.

I'm not an inspirational quote kind of person.