Thandie Newton Quotes

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

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

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.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

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

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

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

If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.

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

I'm a dramatic, depressive person.

I look at something like 'Short Term 12,' and that character has a lot of pain, and I wouldn't have known how to portray that if I hadn't experienced pain myself.

I don't think any one relationship in my life has wrecked me. I think I am a collection of wrecks.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

We all have our inner demons.

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

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.