Cuba Gooding Jr. Quotes

The drama takes a toll on you.

It was hard not to feel violated [in Stone movie], 'cause I have to go home after walking in these shoes all day. It plays a number on your head. Some days I came home and was really upset; it was hard to see the baby [Jovovich's 2-year-old daughter].

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

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.

As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.

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

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.

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!

Being away from the game you love so much, it will mess with your mind.

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

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

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

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 General is suffering from mental saddle sores.

When you're playing someone who is angry and sad all the time, you get a little down.

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

To say I am not mentally tired in ways and exhausted in ways would be a lie.

The character I played on 'Everwood' was so serious and melancholic that after doing it for four years, it really started affecting my soul. I was becoming Ephram.

I think I understand why most actors and actresses are insane, because having to go through an emotional roller coaster as your job every day of your life would make somebody absolutely loopy.

Honestly, the pains of humanity have been draining me.

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

My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.

Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.