Gillian Flynn Quotes

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.

Work is a great blotter up. It stops you thinking, which is useful. No, it stops you feeling.

I be getting high just to balance out the lows.

Somehow I always get stronger when I'm on my second drink

I don’t care if it’s dog piss. It makes me feel better.

As the weeks went on, I realized there was an important role comedy would play in healing the tragedies of September 11. Comedy can help people cope, and many people were coming to the clubs to laugh out the stress.

I couldn't have made it without knowing how to use laughter to get from one day to the next.

One has to develop a sense of humor to cope.

People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

I had a sort of rocky upbringing, and I think the theater was a safe place for me.

I'd go into the pub and start crying even before I'd had my first drink.

A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It's a coping mechanism.

Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

When times are good, people drink. When times are bad, people drink.

I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

I only ever baked because it helped with my anxiety.

I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.

In our most desperate times, people going through true hardships use humor to cope.

I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.

Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.

"Have you ever found anything that gives you relief?" "Yes. A drink."