John Grant Quotes

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

I could have carried on in comedy. But my life was dark.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

I remember, in middle school, I went to four different schools. That was a rough patch. But it's also what shaped me as a person.

Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature.

The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

It's an interesting thing when you discover something about yourself. To go: 'Wow, I'm not the person I thought I was. I'm in the middle of something and I can't actually deal with it.'

Everyone hits bottom their own way.

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

Everybody has their demons that they face, and I went through a time when I thought it was impossible to love myself.

It's good to have a bad season because you learn a lot about yourself; you become stronger, and you see where you have to improve.