Greg Mottola Quotes

I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of those things brought me to where I am. Without those things, I couldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be here.

Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you have to do that on film to make a point, it's hard. It's rough. I don't think it's as easy as people think.

You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. And I'm really sensitive, so I take even small mistakes as huge ones.

I look at something like 'Short Term 12,' and that character has a lot of pain, and I wouldn't have known how to portray that if I hadn't experienced pain myself.

It's all the stuff I've been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.

I've been through a heartbreak and seen the business side of the music industry. Now I see things clearer.

I get why we don't want to be in pain, but there's something very essential about what happens when we're in pain and some of the growth that can come from it if we stare at it straight in the face.

It took a long time for me to put a smile on my face over the course of my lifetime, and my experience of what I've been through on and off the field.

I have some great stories. But I am also very human, and I suffered an awful lot.

It's been my experience with damaged people: they don't wake up every day and wallow in the bad things that have happened to them.

I've had a lot of therapy in my life.

Aging doesn't scare me at all. You can handle the bumps each year. They're traumatic when you're younger, and they're hurtful, and you go through some terrible times, and you feel terrible.

My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.

I've cried my eyes out and wanted to end it all before. I hope everybody's gone that far, because it makes life rich.

I feel I have a lot to share, I have stories for years, and I've been through everything, there's nothing you can throw at me that I haven't been through.

It's hard to know who you are until you're cracked open a little bit.