Vin Diesel Quotes

I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

I had a breakdown after making 'Atonement.'

I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

I went through a lot of changes and a period of depression. I'd reached an age when I had to grow up and start taking life a bit more seriously, which had a huge impact on me. I suffered terrible anxiety, and sometimes, in the middle of a game, my legs would start shaking uncontrollably. It was pretty scary.

I got issues. Boy, have I got issues.

It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.

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

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

Sit down, man. You're a bloody tragedy.

I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.

I don't know if I was born an alcoholic, but I was definitely born anxious.

A breakdown involves getting to the point at which your mental state prevents you from doing the normal things of your everyday life. I remember from my own experience that I was completely ambushed by mine.

Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my head was Martin Luther King's.

When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across the country, and one of the things I started to notice was that behind many of the stories of addiction, violence, depression and anxiety were threads of loneliness.

A three-month training camp writes you off, I wake up and I literally can't get out of bed.

Painful breakups can have profound effects on the body and mind.