Jamey Sheridan Quotes

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.

Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.

There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

It's really hard to watch yourself.

I do have sometimes a difficult time watching myself.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

It's very difficult for me to talk about myself, it's not something I enjoy.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

It's tough being me.

When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity - being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday - there's a part of me that really doesn't grasp that it's me.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me.

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.

To me, self-description is a calamity.