Cuba Gooding Jr. Quotes

I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

I don't think nightmares are necessarily bad for you.

The drama takes a toll on you.

I think the idea of losing your hair is still very potent, emotional thing.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

Anxiety, it just stops your life.

I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

I have a lot of nightmares.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad - when the phone rings, I know somebody in my family's been hurt, somebody's going to die. I'm sure a therapist would go, 'That's not a good way to live,' but every time it's not that bad thing, I'm so thankful and appreciative.

There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.

The is an intensity of anxiety here greater than I ever saw during the [Civil] war.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my head was Martin Luther King's.