Mental Health Risks Quotes

Unless people are in the shoes of a child actor, they don't realise how difficult it can be at times. I definitely enjoy what I'm doing, though.

It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.

At times, I feel sorry for kids who have succumbed in some kind of way to being a child actor.

I grew a very early distaste for fame and glamour because I saw what the spotlight and attention can do to you as a family, so to speak.

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

Sometimes I wake up and I think, where did my memory go? But at the same time, I signed up for it. Football has been like that for a long time, for ages.

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.

Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.

The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

If I start mining for opinions on hundreds of websites that have fan forums, I'll be totally distorted in my view of myself. I'll lose myself in all that.

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

You realise fame is something that if you court it too much or if you indulge in it too much, it will have a negative effect ultimately on your mental health and self esteem, because fame is ultimately about achieving positive self esteem through external factors, and that's a losing game, I would say.

I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

I am, as a father, very worried about the growing evidence of the impact of social media on children's mental health.

The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it's a dangerous game for a lot of people.

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.

I sound like an old man when I talk about the Internet, but I am actually worried about what it's doing to our brains and our sense of connection.