Michael Palmer Quotes

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

I wanted to try and trace the genuine origins of 'Johnny' and how he so successfully staged this takeover of 'Michael Pennington.' 'Johnny' is a contradiction to who I am as a person. I'm not very good at confrontation, I have a tendency to internalise and to carry things around.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.

I look on the outside how I feel on the inside.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

My instincts tell me that you will spiral into a very unhealthy place if you start pondering about how other people think about you and, quite frankly, I don't want to go there.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.

Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression.

I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.

I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters.