Kurt Sutter Quotes

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

What feeds me destroys me.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

I was an ego maniac with a self-esteem problem and that's what most addicts are like.

I feel like I've had bad nights or destructive nights or nights where I don't remember anything or nights where I was seriously injured or seriously in danger. And I remained nihilistic and unconcerned because it felt like there was no alternative.

A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

I promote my own self-hatred.

I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.