Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
August Wilson
[On his marriage to Madonna] She was in the process of becoming the biggest star in the world. I just wanted to make my films and hide. I was an angry young man. I had a lot of demons and don`t really know who could`ve lived with me at the time. I was jus...
Sean Penn
I`m not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in. Actually, I think that it`s the comedians who are the darkest people on the planet, because they think life`s just b...
Naomi Watts
I feel like I`m the most well-adjusted character on the show (Reno 911), even though I`m sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters. But I think mine is. I feel like I`ve dealt with my demons, and it`s all out there.
Thomas Lennon
There is nothing wrong with horror films. Their existence has definitely had an impact on me. It is important to have scary demons in our world on film. We have them in the world. That is why we are afraid, it is nice to have a visual and to have a confro...
Brad Dourif
If a man is touched by genius, he is not an ordinary person. He doesn`t lead an ordinary life. He has extremes of behaviour which you understand and you just find a way not to be swept overboard by his demons. - On Laurence Olivier
Joan Plowright
I guess I came to terms with my demons. Or else I`d be in big trouble, wouldn`t I? Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that`s human nature. I`ll tell you, being pretty crazy w...
Margot Kidder
[On his role as Jack in Love the Hard Way (2001)] "I identified a lot with that character, I was exorcising the demons that I`d has as a hoody kid in Queens, where you hold your own or wither. So my character out-hustled the hustle."
Adrien Brody
I used to be under the impression that in some kind of wanky, bullshit way, acting was like therapy: you get in and grapple with and exorcise all those demons inside of you. I don`t believe that anymore. It`s like a snow shaker. You shake the thing up, bu...
Gary Oldman
Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.
Michelle Shocked
Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don`t want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home.
Michael Franti
There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I`d love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.
John Glover
There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I`d love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.
John Glover
Moody is a gunslinger with a wand. He`s someone who has chased the demons away from goodness to the extent that he`s gotten quite warped by it. One of the things [director] Mike Newell suggested when we first discussed the character was that Moody`s great...
Brendan Gleeson
In the last couple of years I`ve been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It`s something I think I`ll be doing for the rest of my life.
David Coverdale
I would have loved to have met Elvis Presley, ... He was the King. It`s very interesting to me; the way he grew up, the demons he battled, how he handled the pressure and how, after a while, it became a burden he couldn`t carry.
Oscar De La Hoya
Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man
Anna Freud
