Gene Tierney Quotes

I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.

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

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

It's really hard to watch yourself.

I know what my sweet spot has been. It's personal stuff, dysfunction, fear of intimacy, family stuff, psychology stuff. I eviscerate myself onstage.

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.

Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

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.

I've always internalized things.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

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

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.

We all have our inner demons.

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

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

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

Everybody has a story... and a scream.

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.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

It's hard listening to myself.