Richard King Quotes

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.

Whenever I have that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.

I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.

So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun.

People tend not to dwell on drama.

There was one point in time that I wasn't fighting, and I was frustrated and I was getting in trouble.

I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.

I grew up as a boy with aggression.

Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.

Some people have issues in their past that might make them tweak out at certain moments, but it's possible to snap back and be a real human being.

Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.

I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.