Being mentally tough is having to battle those demons and push yourself out of your comfort zone and force yourself to be the person that your mind is telling you you aren’t.
At the end of the day, we’re all human beings, and people have their struggles and inner demons.
There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.
I don’t check for Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly or any of these demons on the Right. They don’t wake me up in the morning. I don’t care about them, and they certainly don’t drive the conversations I’m thinking about, but they do have an audience, and they do lie all day, every day about disenfranchised people.
I really thought I knew Johnny Cash. I thought I didn’t need to spend a lot of time researching his life. But I wasn’t within 50 miles of knowing Johnny Cash. I knew he was a good guy and a dedicated artist, but I didn’t know the demons, the struggles he had in his personal life.
I fight demons.
As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.
‘Foyle’s War’ made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on his soul, but he never let his personal demons get in the way of what was best for our country.
You can’t escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can’t let it ruin your life. I’m actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don’t, really. It’s not like I’m trying to exorcise any demons.
I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else’s hustle.
Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
My father had his demons; our relationship was difficult and fractured. But I don’t ever think, ‘Poor me,’ I just feel blessed that I had my mother. She was such a great mum.
Every war has its demons.
Writing about my life was a 13-year process where I had to face my demons as I wrote and take the time to understand them, then defeat them.
Carter Hall is a cross between Indiana Jones and Robert Langdon from ‘Da Vinci Code’ and ‘Angels and Demons.’
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.
I felt really lucky that ‘Hairstyles Of The Damned’ and ‘The Boy Detective Fails’ were both bestsellers, and I thought that donating the money from ‘Demons’ was a good way to respond to that. My favorite artists are the ones that are willing to experiment, even if it means a smaller audience.
My mother fed my love of demons, science fiction, and paranormal. She was a devout horror movie fan who kept me up until the wee hours to watch ‘Outer Limits,’ ‘Night Gallery,’ ‘Twilight Zone,’ and ‘Star Trek.’ We lived to watch those reruns.
Each one of my movies is going to be about one of these different social demons. The first one, being ‘Get Out,’ is about race and neglect and marginalization.
I couldn’t write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward’s an idol, but his plays are serious to me. ‘Private Lives’ and ‘Design for Living’ both have an edge. Without psychoanalyzing myself, I think I exorcise my demons in my work.
May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons – and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off – and how will you ever get control of them again!
We all have our demons. When we finally learn to let them go, we get to live and be free.
I’ve been obsessed with demons since reading ‘The Elfstones of Shannara’ and ‘Master of the Five Magics’ by Lyndon Hardy.
There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there’s nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name.
I feel like the job of an artist is to confront their own darkness and their own demons and fears. And I want to make movies that feel human up on the screen. I don’t really relate to dudes wearing spandex and capes.
The subject of angels and demons really grabbed me. There is a huge mass of information, and the Bible is one of the most amazing reference points.
I think we all have demons, but my demons aren’t that bad. They’re productive demons. They keep me focused on the man I want to be and the life I want to live.
We’re much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity.
You don’t need to exorcise your personal demons onstage.
I don’t know that all the demons have been beaten, but I’m very, very proud of those songs.
I was a very scared child. Not, you know, not so much of life but of the demons that lurked in the dark. And horror movies terrified me. You know, I’d love watching them but then at night, I would just be up in sweats all night.
I’d seen Titus Welliver in a few shows and felt he had some inner demons in his portrayals, as does Harry Bosch.
