Alexandra Kleeman Quotes

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It's hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Ever since I was a child, I have loved being the centre of attention, but similarly, I can't remember a time in my life that I haven't battled with all sorts of quandaries, fears and weaknesses.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Anybody who's dealt with addiction and depression knows that sometimes they can make you forget who you are and kind of bring out a different person, somebody you don't know as well.

When I admitted to myself I was ill, it was tough to accept. I didn't want my family to worry about me.

I still deal with triggers and neuroses that I've developed over the decades. But I do think I have a great amount of compassion for people who feel that they don't fit in, or people who feel they have trouble finding their place in this world.

They say depression is just anger turned inward. Sometimes I turn it outwards, sometimes I turn it inward, but I know it's about self-worth.

I feel like I'm the best actor on the planet and I also feel like I'm a fraud. I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it.

There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.