Mike Flanagan Quotes

You're always fighting the demons.

The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they died and their voices infected him, coursed through his body, poisoned him. He didn't know how to turn off the noise, or turn the hate back out onto the world like the rest of us. He turned it on himself. You could see that from the scars on him.

All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

We all - if we are honest with ourselves, we all have these dark spaces within our souls that we don't always want to talk about or acknowledge.

The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts

I can't drown my demons. They know how to swim.

Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.

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

That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it.

I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies.

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.

If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

Stress is real, and you never know what a person is going through behind the camera.

Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.

I've never had a person come to me and say, 'I want to take down this person.' They come and say, 'I need help. This thing is killing me. It's weighing me down. It's sitting in the pit of my stomach.'

I fight demons.

I personally dealt with a lot of depression and anxiety in my life.