Dick Cavett Quotes

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.

You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.

I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.

I just decided to take some time off. I've been modeling since '93, '92, and that's a pretty long time. I'm a single mother and I chose to focus on her.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

I'm somewhat depressive.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

Certainly in the theatre, you never have to get up before 10 A.M., and when filming, though you do have to get up terribly early, you usually get to lie down a lot during the working day. I thought my semi-bedridden existence was a choice. But now I think that actually, in fact, I must always have been depressed.

I was depressed for a long time.

I think one of the things that happened to me in the last couple of years in the WWE where I realized how unhappy I was in that environment, was that I realized that I needed variety and balance in my life.

It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up.

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.

It's funny because before I joined the cast of 'Heroes,' I was an insomniac. I have suffered from insomnia for, like, so long. Now that I'm on the show, seriously - I sleep like a baby. I'm so tired all the time.

I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

When I'm not working, I get very down, but when I am working, I get very immersed in it.

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

I had a lot of depression as a kid.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants.

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word.