Quotessence
Home / Books / Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

Book by Matthew Perry · 2 quotes · Memoir, Acting, Creativity

Filter quotes by topic

AllMemoirActingCreativityMental HealthPsychologyAddictionAnhedoniaLonelinessActorsAdorationAlcoholAlcoholismBecomingBoredomBruce WillisChildDespairDevelopmentDirectingExcitement

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing Quotes

“The key to the problem, I would come to understand, was this: I lacked both spiritual guidelines, and an ability to enjoy anything. But at the same time, I was also an excitement addict. This is such a toxic combination I can't even. I didn't know this at the time, of course, but if I was not in the act of searching for excitement, being excited, or drunk, I was incapable of enjoying anything. The fancy word for that is "anhedonia," a word and feeling I would spend millions in therapy and treatment centers to discover and understand. Maybe that's why I won tennis matches only when I was a set down and within points of losing. Maybe that's why I did everything I did. "Anhedonia," by the way, was the original working title of my favorite movie, the one my mother and I had enjoyed together, "Annie Hall". Woody gets it. Woody gets me.”

TherapyExcitementAnhedonia
Book:Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Create image