Hugh Dancy Quotes

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.

When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.

I've had very deep moments of sadness. What I do is really sob, really cry, do whatever it is, and then kind of release it. Then I can go cook dinner or make a phone call to a friend.

What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

Don't be afraid to not be OK. For a lot of people, when they get upset about something, they keep it bottled up, and that's the worst thing you can do.

I used to suppress all my feelings, and it doesn't do anybody any good.

My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.

'Miss Jackson' is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn't really talked about it, and I felt that if I didn't, I would keep thinking about it; it would drive me crazy.

Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse. So for me, it's a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to have some peace from our problems.

It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

My YouTube channel is kind of a library of all my issues I've lived with. To process it emotionally, it's been good and bad.

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

I'll sit on the floor and cry if I'm having a meltdown. I don't care.

You can't un-have an experience. You can deny the experience; you can process it and try to get through it, but you can't change the fact that it happened to you.

In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12 and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but also my work as well.