Charlotte Rampling Quotes

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

I always felt like if I lived in true authentic self-expression and lived in service and in support of many other people, I would be exempt from having to deal with yet another crisis in my life. I was wrong.

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

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

There's not day that goes by that I don't remember why I'm in the situation I'm in.

In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

I'm ready to deal with somebody else's baggage. I'm sick of mine.

We all have this [emotional] stuff we carry in an invisible suitcase. You can't keep it all, because if you keep it all, you can't move forward. But you can't let it all go, because if you let it all go, you're not yourself. The great balancing act of life is, What do I keep in here?

Sure, I went through my 'J'accuse' phase. I was so angry for so long, I could hardly have a conversation without getting into an argument. And it was only when I felt I could finally distance myself from my past that I began to write about what happened - not just to me, but to lots of young people. I think my story is a cautionary tale.

I would say my whole first record, 'Steady On,' had a lot to do with healing.

We all have our baggage, and I think the trick is not resisting it but accepting it, understanding that the worst experience has a valuable gift wrapped inside if you're willing to receive it.

I can't change the past. It made me what I am.

You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.

I don't think any one relationship in my life has wrecked me. I think I am a collection of wrecks.

Talking about darker stuff from my life was definitely very cathartic and at times confronting.

I chose to go down a very dark place, and I can't change that, but those moments have served as an education for me.

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

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. What I learned from it is that today seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly.

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.

Catch up with your past, before it catches up with you.

The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.