Richard Paul Evans Quotes

When I'm facing an issue or a challenge sometimes, it's easier for me to avoid really facing that or dealing with it, and just go make films.

When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of escaping my own problems and my own reality.

Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough, he suspected, pretty soon you wouldn't feel anything at all.

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

I hate taxing my mind with analysis. I'm not a good analyst. I cannot talk about acting. I hate talking about it. I hate talking about analyzing.

If you laugh at it, you can deal with it.

Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.

I let go usually by talking to many people in different areas, in different realms of life that make me look at what I'm dealing with as being small fries stuff, you know?

When I'm going through something that has a big impact on my life, it's much easier to sing.

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.

Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on.

Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.

Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.

I'm not making fun of it because I want to make fun of it. I'm making fun of it so I feel better. I don't want people to think any time there's a tragedy that I'm going to make a joke about it. It's only funny to me because it's personal to me. And that was always the goal. It wasn't to be this insult person.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I can get all my thoughts out and try to figure out the issues that I'm having and try, I'm trying to find the answers.

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.