Fay Wray Quotes

Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.

In life, you're going to have a lot of problems. Everybody's got problems. Some is worse than others. Some is sickness. Some, like me, you've got problems that you don't like that come up. But you've got to handle them.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

For me, art is like a big support group, where you go and meet people who think the same way, and you go, 'Okay, I'm not nuts.'

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

I used to assume no one would care, but I do think now I've written songs that are useful to people having dark hours.

I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.

I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

I'd like to think that even if I wasn't acting professionally, I would still be doing it for free. It helps me get through the day.

As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

If I hadn't had acting, I would probably have imploded.

I started keeping a diary in third grade and, in solidarity with Anne Frank, gave it a name and made it my confidante. To this day, I feel comforted and relieved of loneliness, no matter how foreign my surroundings, if I have a pad and a pen with which to record my experiences.

I've never had therapy. Maybe the work is the therapy.

When my father passed away, my mom didn't really know what to do and how to deal with it for me, so she put me in extracurricular classes, one of them being theater.

When it became clear that I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at id software, I decided to not renew my contract.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

When life gave me tough situations, acting helped me cope with those situations.

On the song 'Buried Alive,' it's almost like the instrumental is a therapist.

Music was always ever present when I was growing up, and it's continued to be the most important and intrinsic part of me. It kept me from going off the rails as a kid, and it gave me rare purpose and self-confidence that I couldn't find from anything else.

I'm so thankful that I had music to turn to in the dark times and be able to understand myself through it.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

I never thought I'd be somebody dealing with anxiety or depression.

Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.

I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling... they're working through illness, injury, addiction, depression, grief, or some other trauma. It seems to me that there's a lot of heroism in fighting those things as well, as best you can.