Milla Jovovich Quotes

To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!

It wears on your soul when you take on the mental state of a dark character.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.

Any time you make a movie where you're living in a certain head space for an extended period of time, it's tough not to take a little piece home with you.

'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be.

'Taramani' was a very emotionally draining film for me.

When a person is juggling a lot of emotions in a single day, it can take a toll.

Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

Being in a person's head for five months, where they're so hateful, is kind of exhausting.

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.

I am very proud of what 'Johnny' achieved in stand-up comedy because he believed entirely in giving an audience the best kick he could. But he was someone who was quite detrimental to my health, both emotionally and physically.

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

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

It's fun to play a dark character, but you go home at the end of the day not feeling very good about yourself. You go away feeling dirty. It seeps into the air.

There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I'm there in my makeup, and that's getting a little tiring.

The General is suffering from mental saddle sores.

... too emotionally strung out.

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

I actually found 'We're the Millers' one of the toughest, if I'm honest, least fun experiences of my life, which is weird. It was such a huge opportunity for me to work with the people I worked with and I feel grateful to be a part of that, but it kind of messed me up.

Physically, it is very demanding as an actor, and I don't want to put a lot of focus on that, but I think it is emotionally and mentally a lot more... It can completely twist you... We abandon ourselves for days and months, and by the end of it, we are twisted people which you make fun of.

'Saving Grace' was a full stretch-out - literally, physically, spiritually, psychologically. And I needed to take a year-and-a-half off when it was over.

The 'Demon King' takes out a lot out of Finn Balor the man emotionally and mentally.

As actors, we exhaust ourselves emotionally and physically, which no one sees.