Cornelia Funke Quotes

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

What's wrong with being angry? There's a lot of stuff to be angry about. If you're angry, anger covers pain. I don't know if you can truly deal with pain.

Often, we feel helpless in lots of situations in our lives. The way anger gets a grip on us is it seems to be a way to extricate ourselves from helplessness.

You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

When you're in a depressed state, having something really bad happen gives you kind of a life again.

I love to cry. It's great.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

Personally, when things upset me, I get quiet and closed off. I have nothing to say, and a chill sets in while I think about what's going on.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life.

If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.

I can cry all day long - that's easy for me.

Sometimes, I cry because I'm sad, and sometimes, I cry just because it's just emotional and it's super awesome.

I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

Sometimes, I have played something that psychologically sticks with me, that's opposite of where I am. I guess I have a lot of anger in me.