Depressing Quotes

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On visiting Hamburg, Germany, shortly after Adolf Hitler came to power: "I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and the word `Jude` painted on them, and inside, behind half-empty counters, people in a daze, cringing like they didn`t know what hit them and didn`t know where the next blow would come from. Hitler had been in power only six months, and his boycott was already in full effect. I hadn`t been so wholly conscious of being a Jew since my bar mitzvah, and it was the first time since I`d had the measles that I was too sick to eat."

- Harpo Marx

"I like talking about subjects that aren`t funny in the first place and making them funny. So anything down and depressing is something I`ll talk about."

- Chris Rock

"A lot of the time when I was using (drugs), I`d just end up with a guitar, writing or recording some pretty depressing songs. I thought they were good at the time, and a couple are not too bad, but a lot of the shit I listen back to and think, ugh, that`s fucking depressing."

- Izzy Stradlin

When I got to L.A., my family had me go to dinner with this guy who had been acting here for 20 years. He gave me this big lecture and said, "You know how much money I made in 20 years of acting? Eight thousand dollars. And I`m a carpenter." He was just really unhappy and it was depressing. Then he got really stoned and I went home and felt sick. I think it was just morbid fear. I was 18. That fear stays with you so intensely and you`re constantly just getting turned down for what you think of as the most vapid, stupid kind of paycheck, "Baywatch" (1989) things, and you think, "Jesus, if I`m not good enough for this, then I`m not going to make it". This town is too hard, and people were always telling me, "You`re too big, you`re too tall, you can only play bullies and you will never be a leading man.

- Ben Affleck

There`s nothing more depressing than making a movie. It has moments of real joy, mostly later if you like what you`ve done, but making it is miserable -- like chipping lumps off of me. I tend to be obsessive and I`m a total manic depressive. I find it very hard to enjoy things. After "Flashdance" opened, there were lines around the block, full houses, but all I could think was, "Tomorrow, it`s going to fall off!" But also I`m terrified of starting to believe your own legend, starting to believe you`re good at this, that you`re not still learning.

- Adrian Lyne

The cover story of New York Magazine this week is "Baby Panic". This goes perfectly with the other magazines on my coffee table - "Where Are The Babies?" (US), "Why Haven`t You Had A Baby?" (People) and "For God`s Sake Have A Baby" (Time). Thanks, Time magazine, this is just what I need - another article so depressing that I can actually hear my ovaries curling up.

- Tina Fey

"Most everybody today that`s young is operating under the insane idea that what we`ve got going on is the best that there is. But it`s not. Current entertainment is cheap, shoddy, infantile, adolescent, not grown-up. We`re fed imagery that`s really pornographic, by people with an infantile idea of sexuality. It`s a sad and depressing thing."

- Hal Holbrook

Theater is like exercise. I feel it`s healthy. But I don`t love it as much as movies. A bad experience in the theater can be so depressing. You`ve got to do it every night, even if the production is not working.

- Clive Owen

You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that`s depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

- David Spade

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don`t give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

- Adriana Lima

It`s a very depressing, dark place, ... And the walls are just stained with sadness.

- Dominic Purcell

It`s a very depressing, sad kind of place. It just adds to the atmosphere of the show.

- Dominic Purcell

Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, `Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?`

- Ellen Burstyn

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don`t have a game. I`m so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

- Jason Schwartzman

(on "Inside the Actors Studio" (1994), answering an actor`s question about whether to move from NYC to L.A.) "Don`t go to L.A. unless there`s work. It`s one of the most frustrating and depressing places to be an actor. The problem is that it has no center. I would try to do something here first."

- Michael Douglas

I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end.

- Michelle Rodriguez

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you`ve got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.

- Nicolas Cage

On how Hollywood treats its female actors: In general it`s so much more of an objectification. You know the drill, it`s a true story. For instance, if I am being asked to have a picture taken on the cover of a magazine, maybe they`re wanting me to look sexy, maybe they`re wanting me to look rugged, maybe they`re wanting me to look fragile. With a woman, they want you to look available, essentially, that you are in some way inviting. And that`s just fucking depressing.

- Paul Bettany

When you get to over 40 and people are killing each other still around the world and blowing each other up, it gets a bit sort of depressing.

- Ralph Fiennes

I think you have to keep your distance from mainstream Hollywood in order to be a normal human being. I mean, I work there, and I like being there, but I love having an anonymous life. I think there`s definitely such a thing as being too famous. The reason why I stayed in Canada had everything to do with the kind of films we used to make before the commercial mandate came in effect at Telefilm. They were films that asserted an independent vision of the world. They weren`t just cheap versions of American genre films...but movies that spoke to the human condition. Now, I`m beginning to wonder why I stayed and if it was a huge mistake. (On herself and other Canadian actors & filmmakers, such as director-actor-writer Don McKellar, who stayed in Canada rather than go Hollywood and make movies in the U.S.) If Canadian films don`t have a purpose, then what are we still doing here? We`re beginning to freak out a little. Why make a commitment with so little reward? The Canadian films out there have been so weak, it`s been kind of depressing".

- Sarah Polley

(About THX-1138) My first film was a parable about the way we are living our lives today. I realize it was a rather depressing statement. People really weren`t interested in a depressing statement. Being a pessimist doesn`t seem to accomplish anything.

- George Lucas

I see the most depressing town that you`ve ever been to, where there`s only one thing to do, and that`s go to work at the factory, get married and have kids. This girl was so afraid that she was going to die there. `Sing a Bible song over me` obviously means her funeral. She just wasn`t going to put up with that life, and so she ran. Lori McKenna is very cool. She writes really differently ... very abstract. The song means something to her, but you have to interpret it in your own way and figure out your own way to relate to it.

- Sara Evans

I found talking to the young failed suicide bomber the most unsettling and depressing - that there could be that much hatred and ignorance.

- Barbara Walters

(on director Lindsay Anderson) I think he`s a very talented man, but I think he`s a difficult man to work with. He really prefers theater and not film, and that`s a little depressing, I must say.

- Bette Davis

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it`s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

- Dolly Parton

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

- Donald Rumsfeld

God, I am afraid he won`t give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.

- Eva Braun

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I`ll never be as good as a wall.

- Mitch Hedberg

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn`t see otherwise.

- Wayne Kramer

Have you ever Googled yourself? I did, most depressing thing ever. People have websites hoping I die at 38.

- Artie Lange

The songs are depressing, but they sound happy. That`s the whole trick, ... This record is more a function of being on the road for basically two years, never having any downtime or privacy. Any semblance of a normal life. So you end up writing these disjointed, disconnected songs.

- Rhett Miller

It`s full of depressing details about the children`s lives, ... and, I`m sorry to say, it`s the longest in the series. So in terms of total misery, it`s quite a lot to deal with well, both in terms of the number of pages and the amount of misery per page.

- Daniel Handler

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant`s book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

- Merlin Olsen

There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.

- Neal Boortz

This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

- Alan Hovhaness

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone`s fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I`m one of Us. I must be. I`ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We`re always one of Us. It`s Them that do the bad things.

- Terry Pratchett

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

- Adelaide Hasse

It`s often been said that I`m an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I`ve never known what to make of that.

- Akio Morita

It`s easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It`s harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.

- Andreas Heine

Stress and depression really are not scientifically established as carcinogenic factors.... You don`t have to feel guilty that you`re stressing or depressing yourself into a case of cancer.

- Arthur 'Bugs' Baer

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

- Ashley McFarland

The first part of having surgery, that first week, was depressing because I knew I was done for the whole season. There were no ifs, ands or buts coming back early, you were done. It was hard the first couple of months watching the guys (play).

- Baron Flenory

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

- Henri Matisse

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

- Henri Matisse