Quotes About Coping

At one point, I shook a tree full of fire ants on my head just to have some pain to distract me from my aching feet so that I could continue to walk.

I've always walked around with the sense that the world is not a safe place. I didn't get the spontaneous gene or the adventure one, really. After going through the day with its stresses, when I shut that door at night, I don't have to deal with anything but dinner, 'E.R.' and my bathrobe.

My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?

I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.

We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we restrict our mental lives to smaller and smaller areas.

If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

I was going through a divorce so I wasn't having the best time, but I wasn't going to the doctor for Prozac.

When things don't go your way, it bites you from within, and you have to find a way to get out of it.

Even with me, there are so many things I have bottled up.

I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.

I have a shrink in New York and a shrink in Arizona, just in case. You never know when you will have a breakdown.

I find talking about my breakdown really easy.

Sometimes in life you reach your breaking point, when you just can't deal with something anymore.

What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.

No one wants to go through a breakup.

If I'm in a social situation where I'm triggered, I go into the bathroom and move and shake and breathe.

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

I always know how to look at the bright side because there's been a lot of dark.

You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.

But you're not really emotionally mature in your 20s. Well, we weren't. You don't say anything, you just bottle it up and then it builds up.

In school, I would run away whenever there was trouble, as I would get bullied a lot.

I was bullied at school, so I didn't much like it.