Craig David Quotes

I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a lunatic wandering around for scraps, I’m like every single miserable moron I’ve scorned and pretended I didn’t recognize. I’m all of them, every last ugly thing in a bad last-minute costume. I’m not different, not at all, not different from any other speck of a thing. I’m a blemished blemish, a ruined ruin, a stained wreck so failed I can’t see what I used to be.

People see me on TV and I'm this calm, level headed guy. Honestly, that's the furthest thing from who I am. For a long time I struggled with anger and stress. It was killing me, figuratively and literally.

It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.

I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

In my teenage years, there was a lot of angst going on.

It's really hard to watch yourself.

I have a hard time sometimes watching my own work.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don't even understand.

No one knows who Peter Parker is. People just know who Spider-Man is. When you get that in the mix of growing up and finding yourself, that's more of a relatable tone than being Captain America and having the country's weight on your shoulders.

I was more or less a carnival attraction. I was a freak show.

I would love to break away from my comic image.

That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.

I feel weird talking about it, because how can I, as the guitar player of Slipknot, sit here and say, 'Oh, I have trouble.' You know what I mean?

I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.