Anne Parillaud Quotes

I never smile unless I mean it.

I always believed that I had to pretend to be happy. But what I've learned is that it doesn't matter what race or class or demographic you come from. I truly believe that sadness is relative.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

There's not much that I'm closed off about, and the universe gave me all that so I could help people feel like they don't have to be something they're not or feel like they have to fake happy. There's nothing worse than being fake happy.

I want my kids to have a deep, inner feeling that it's alright to be happy, that you don't have to be constantly manufacturing problems that you don't really have.

No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

I think no matter how successful our lives may seem to the outside world, we all have our personal struggles.

I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

There's more to life than cheek bones.

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

I'm not a tortured soul.

Being down makes you think who you are.

I think beauty shows exteriorly what you are feeling inside; so if you are not in a great mood, it shows on your face a lot.

My emotion is real, and my everyday life is filled with the same feeling.

That is the thing that I was scared of - that I would know intellectually that there's something to glean out of life, but that I would be so broken that I wouldn't care.

Sometimes I feel like a million dollars and sometimes I feel terrible. But I've always been open about the fact that it's OK to be human and embrace those feelings.

So I'm not naturally happy all the time, all upbeat. People that know me will tell you that.

There's a lot of people who think that I am happy all the time.

It's not always about external problems. It can also come from within, and it can happen to everyone, not only young girls but also boys.

I'm always dealing with this sadness. I don't want to be Morrissey or anything, but it is a thing I deal with it. Every day, when I wake up, I have to make a decision to fight this depression. That sounds horrible but I'm fine with it; it's who I am; it's my life. I try not to let it cripple me.

In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.

How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.

Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.