My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

- Jackson Browne

Tortured characters are, I think, an actor's dream.

- Ruben Blades

I don't want to always be the tortured, soulful wife.

- Robin Wright

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

- Paulo Coelho

Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?

- Patty Griffin

When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.

- Odette Annable

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

- Noel Gallagher

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

- Noam Chomsky

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

- Mike White

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

- Jessica Lange

James Dean was always a tortured soul.

- Ansel Elgort

I didn't have this tortured childhood; I liked it.

- John Hughes

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

- Halle Berry

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

- Erich Hoeber

Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.

- Emily Watson

I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.

- Domhnall Gleeson

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.

- Ben Whishaw

I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.

- Ben Barnes

As young as I look, I think it will still be funny if I played a person who's kind of tortured and hates his life. Kind of like a Larry David-type thing.

- Andy Milonakis

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.

- Anton Yelchin