Kevin Nealon Quotes

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.

I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

I suppress stress to the point where it will force its way through my skin in the form of a large angry pimple because that's the only channel it has.

A sensitive person is seldom happy with the world the way it is. And since you cannot change it, you think, 'Might as well numb the anguish.' If you're using something to escape reality, then it's something you need to address.

I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.

I be getting high just to balance out the lows.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.