Mark Lanegan Quotes

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

What a tiresome creature that man [Charles De Gaulle] is.

I'm a very difficult person to live with.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.

A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.

I can be prickly and difficult on set.

I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.

Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.

I wasn't easy to deal with as a player.

I can be quite argumentative and stubborn if I get a bee in my bonnet. I can be quite a pain.

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.

I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

Everybody should be affected by their own realities in their own lives, their own struggles in their own lives. It makes us who we are, and we all know that.

I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.

The Swiss can be very difficult.

Maybe I am not an easy guy.

The thing that really interests me is characters facing challenges that are emblematic of the things they are most frightened of about themselves.

I think me, as a person, I'm starting to become more comfortable with myself as an actress, and I'm also gaining a bit more confidence to speak up because before when I have problems, I just keep them to myself.