Amy Grant Quotes

I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.

I suffer from everyday life.

Most of my friends are not actors. Most people have an idea of what an actor's life is, and it's pure glamour and excitement: it's easy and free and everyone loves you. But with a certain level of fame, there's a real level of paranoia and depression that comes with what you do, that nobody talks about.

Just the life of doing what I do, being in the public eye, it's a stressful environment... You feel strange, self-aware, very foolish. Your third eye clicks on, just to try to maintain a healthy sense of perspective, and you think, 'What am I doing here? I'm just making a movie, and people want all these things from me.'

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in.

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.

I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.

I don't think people get the pressure of becoming famous and what it does for an artist. What does that for your creative self. And what that can do for your mental health. And I would say, from year two to year six or eight of 'Grey's,' it was extremely difficult and very stressful and traumatic, if I'm being honest.

What people have trouble getting their head around is the idea that a celebrity, somebody whom they admire, somebody who seems to have everything, would even be depressed.

Most people don't realise there's certain things that players go through off the field. Most times, guys are good at hiding things.

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life.

Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.

No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result.

Living, it's awful for me.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.