Hugo Weaving Quotes

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

I think no matter how successful our lives may seem to the outside world, we all have our personal struggles.

Everybody has their demons that they face, and I went through a time when I thought it was impossible to love myself.

I don't get along much with myself.

Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

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

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I can live with myself.

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

I could have carried on in comedy. But my life was dark.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

I've suffered from low self-esteem.

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 kind of learned that I am way too tough of a critic on myself and that other people are not judging me as harshly as I judge myself, so I need to give myself a break.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

Now I look back and think if I'd spent more time enjoying myself instead of crying into my pillow over men, my 20s would have been fabulous!