Quotes About Coping

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

I think any time I'm nervous I just pretend that I'm not, and that's how I deal with it.

But I don't let my bad feelings rule my life. I acknowledge them because I can't pretend they aren't there.

If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.

I don't think comedy necessarily comes from a dark place. But I do think what a lot of us have in common is that, growing up, being funny was a coping mechanism.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.

I have a lot of bad days.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it.

Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.

Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.

I'm me, and I've got the cards that I've been dealt.

My thatha's death was the biggest blow I've dealt with in all my life. I have never seen death in my family, especially not of someone who's so close to me... I might be this big guy from the outside, but I'm very sensitive when it comes to my family.

I accept the cards that were dealt to me.

I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.

When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.

We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.

I have to play the hand that was dealt me.

You know, men would much rather run away than talk about stuff, and my default setting has always been, 'If you have an argument, walk out the door.'

Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.

I'm very good at denial.

I'm learning to cope and not deny my own success, but I still think it's not happening a lot. I get nervous, and I am capable of doing something to blow it on purpose. A lot of actors have that problem.

I didn't get depressed, I don't get depressed.