"We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing"
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Then he pivots to something more revealing than comfort: “I think the brain is such…” That phrasing matters. He’s not diagnosing himself as uniquely broken; he’s pointing to an architecture problem. The subtext is anti-closure: you can have career success, admiration, a partner, a purpose, and still experience an internal deficit. By attributing the ache to the brain’s wiring, he sidesteps the usual celebrity narrative that pain is either a badge of artistic depth or a scandal to be fixed. It’s neither. It’s maintenance-level human.
The final clause - “always going to be something missing” - is bleak on paper, but in context it lands like an invitation to stop treating emptiness as a personal failure. For an actor, whose job is to inhabit other selves and be constantly interpreted, the fear of being “misunderstood” is occupational. He’s naming the cost of being seen by millions while still feeling, at 2 a.m., like nobody’s actually looking.
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| Topic | Loneliness |
|---|---|
| Source | Help us find the source |
| Cite | Cite this Quote |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Law, Jude. (n.d.). We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-all-have-times-when-we-go-home-at-night-and-90977/
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Law, Jude. "We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-all-have-times-when-we-go-home-at-night-and-90977/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-all-have-times-when-we-go-home-at-night-and-90977/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.








