Trauma Quotes

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Suffers from aquaphobia due to a trauma she received when she nearly drowned at the age of 12. This caused problems when she had to act in some of the under-water scenes in Alien: Resurrection (1997). The scenes had to be retaken endless times because of this.

- Winona Ryder

I thought that it was a fantastic metaphor for life, and pretty enlightening. And I appreciated the opportunity to play a character that`s blind to the trauma that takes place in his life. The violence that is in the movie I thought was a fantastic metaphor for how blind we are as a society, and as a people, to the things that actually do happen on a day to day basis, and how we kind of just block them out. And whether it be through our media or whatever, we go `Oh, it`s not happening in my world, so it`s not happening.` In the movie there`s a great representation of the violence with the kids, and the pedophilia, and these kind of things that the guys could have taken the easy road, and kind of squeamishly cut around, but they weren`t afraid of it. (talking about The Butterfly Effect (2004)).

- Ashton Kutcher

It`s been awful on the kids. It`s like a trauma. So, I thought as long as I could stabilize her life and get her thinking about other things besides losing her home, losing her apartment.

- Nancy Walker

These people have been through great shock and trauma,

- Stephen Smith

Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I show the cause and effect of violent activity. It`s not a Donald Duck situation where he get a brick in the back of the head and gets up and walks away in the next frame. Mine have violence which keeps Donald Duck in the hospital for six months and creates a trauma which he will remember for the rest of his life.

- Peter Greenaway

When asked by "People" magazine, Nov. 11, 1996 issue, how the disaster of Heaven`s Gate (1980) affected his life: "It was really a great trauma, as everyone knows. Since then, I`ve been unable to make any movie that I`ve wanted to make. I`ve been making the best of what is available."

- Michael Cimino

My father`s family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security. It was as if the world could turn against them at any moment.

- Ang Lee

The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It`s more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.

- Alex Lifeson

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

It`s unrealistic to expect that you can bleach the trauma out of your mind. What treatment can help you do is learn how to cope with the experience, with the memories and to live in the present.

- Lisa Lewis

The problem was, he had to resolve, one way or another. If he got over the trauma, he`d become just another private eye, and I couldn`t use him.

- Donald E. Westlake

You have got to take into account the intensity of the game. We get a feel after the game, the physical toll it has taken on the players. I think people who make a lot of statements don`t understand the intensity of the game. Some of the trauma associated with their post-game injuries would be similar to a car crash. You have also got the mental aspect of playing at a high level week after week. It is a totally different environment that we are talking about.

- Wayne Smith

He is suffering a lot of psychological trauma that he doesn`t know he is going through.

- Daniel Sullivan

We`ve never had a dolphin death due to trauma before.

- Kevin Willis

It does help. But when Lee Memorial must pay $11 million a year to the trauma center, $1 million is only a small help.

- Linda Brown

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

- Julian Clary

Some churches from time to time had gone through the trauma of splitting. Churches would call him in. He had a ministry of helping them to heal.

- David Cloud

(When a large number of casualties hits a community, it causes) a pocket of trauma, ... It`s aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, boyfriends and girlfriends. ... It`s not just 20 families, it`s 200 families.

- Jim Martin

I don`t carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that`s what you`re hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I`ve dealt with it well.

- Angela Merkel

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

- Victoria de los Ángeles

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.

- Amaury de Barros Conti

The Taylor Regional Hospital Trauma Program is one of only three trauma centers in Kentucky and the only Level III. There are no Level II or Level IV Centers and there are only two Level I Centers - the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky.

- Andy Cumbo

Trauma funds aren`t going into the San Gabriel Valley, but paying for the trauma patients that get treated in the basin. Over 96 percent of patients are getting trauma care. We`re doing the best we can do.

- Annie Fort

We can appreciate the emotional trauma these families have suffered and we want to be able to say accurately and honestly what we have,

- Anthony Gary

If all of what they`ve seen is what they`ve seen on television, then the impact can be powerful. They may not have seen their particular place. There may be additional trauma to them and it takes its toll.

- Barbara Reinhold

(While Hurricane Katrina`s impact on people remains a) national and international trauma, ... the animal situation is another massive saga that`s still unfolding.

- Barry Axelrod

We were front-line trauma triage people, ... We wanted to get out front where we could use our skills.

- Barry Belcourt

Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

- Cherrie Moraga