James Nesbitt Quotes

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.

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

I never worried about topping myself.

When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

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

Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.

I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, 'Look, it's sheer insanity.'

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

I'm a dramatic, depressive person.

I think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it kind of plays with it and sucks the color from it.

Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.

I try and act like I'm all there. But I'm not!