Ginnifer Goodwin Quotes

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

Ever since I was a child, I have loved being the centre of attention, but similarly, I can't remember a time in my life that I haven't battled with all sorts of quandaries, fears and weaknesses.

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.

I avoid looking in the mirror.

I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful.

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

I think I'm still, in many ways, a terribly self-conscious person. I'd probably be shooting and think, "Well, how does my hair look?"

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

I don't like being left to my own thoughts.

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

How hard could it be? Is it really going to hurt? You get into that deep well of emotion if you are by yourself. Why am I here? What's the point of going on? If I can't do what I want to do, then what's the point?

And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.

I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

Not everybody's confident their whole life.

Well, I have never, ever Googled myself.