Linda Hamilton Quotations

I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the situation is. Months and months and months go by and I know I need to switch to Shelley or somebody else, but right now Yeats is enough for me.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.

My journey has been so full of struggle and I just want to be able to offer some help and some general ideas to people that really need it the most.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.

It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives.

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

I think it would be irresponsible of the town not to explore it.

We don't want to make any money. We want to break even.

I've seen some of these children who are oblivious to their personal accomplishments

Coach McBride's wife . . . you don't see too many women, from another race, to be hugging a big, old black guy like me,

I have not yet decided that acting is the best way to contribute to this world, and I'm a big contributor. I really would like to take a huge step and head the United Way, be a traveling ambassador. Whatever I can do to be a source of light. I want to hold the crack babies. I want to travel to Africa. I want to do something for the rain forests.

There is hope. You can do it. Start now.

I think I existed on four hours sleep a night for four years.

Sleep doesn't seem necessary. You wake up feeling great. But it's not all great feelings.

I don't feel that any of my greatness has been covered over.

There is a definite correlation between the mind and the body.

Being physically fit doesn't mean anything if the mind isn't fit and being fit in the mind is not worth much if the body is suffering.

I recommend a balance between the therapies that are available, the medicines that are available but not to give up on the body as a result.

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

Exercise is an incredible key to feeling well.

For people with mental illness, taking care of the body is not an automatic thing. The mind is in such chaos it's hard to come up with a plan. So to people like us, it's more important than ever to follow a regimen.

The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd be reading naked.

My quality of life is more amazing than I ever could've imagined in those 20 years of struggling with illness. In those 20 years, I did not know the meaning of the word hope. It was just a bleak, difficult existence. With all the gifts, with all the successes that I had, it was still an incredibly bleak way of living and I want to be a messenger of hope.

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it.

Feel the power of your legs, hear the orchestra playing, see the audience - anything to make the image more real. The image has to be specific. You can't just say to yourself, 'I'll do my best.' You have to have a mental blueprint of that role in your mind.

Please don't mistake who I am for who the character is.

Anybody not wearing a two-million sun block is gonna have a pretty bad day.

There is a dog in every man.