Tommy Rettig Quotes

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage - and at times I feel extremely weak.

I exist in a world that's pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I'm trying to keep my balance.

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.

I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!

I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.

It is difficult to not let the circumstances define you when everyone feels they know your personal struggles and agony.

It took me years on top of years to grow thick skin and it took me many hurtful days.

What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.

I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and to lose the role was definitely tough for me. I was devastated when I lost the role.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.