Quotes About Exhaustion

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

It might be odd for people to hear this, but honestly, you know, when you're on stage, I don't think people realize how grueling eight shows a week is. And as far as jobs go, being a Broadway actor, it's hard. It's fun, but it's hard.

You can't ever get sick on a soap: we work really long hours, the show is on TV five nights a week, and it's random and chaotic.

You imagine running 120 miles a week, week in, week out, for the past four or five years. It takes a little bit out of you.

So Hell Week is considered to be the hardest week of the hardest military training in the world. It is a week of continuous military training during which most classes sleep for a total of two to five hours over the course of the entire week.

I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.

The truth is, working on single camera, show or film, you have no life. You work 60-80 hours a week. You're up before your kid gets up, and you're home when they go to sleep.

Oddly enough you'd think, now that I wasn't training professionally, I'd be able to enjoy a lie-in at the weekend, but I actually slept more when I was competing because I was so tired.

I worked from 8 A.M. to 12 A.M., and sometimes until 2 A.M. There were no shifts, just a few dozen people, and we all polished glass. I didn't enjoy it.

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.

We're assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting.

When I finish a film, I want to feel drained. I want to feel like I couldn't have possibly done any more to service a character and a story.

I've seen a lot of shows, but I can't possibly cram in everything that I'd like to, and it's exhausting trying to.

I feel burnout comes as a result of consistent over-simulation.

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

I hate talking about the dunk contest. I'm just so sick of the dunk contest. I'm done with that. That point of my life I'm over with.

Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.

Riding and romping are easy enough. It's the costume changes that wear me out.

We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.

I think to be a movie critic is troubling from one major respect. If you are forced to watch ten movies a week, it's really only something you can do for a few years. After a while, it's a bit too much.

Women get exhausted and beat down, and you just want to cry.

I've had scenes where I had to cry, and by the time I've cried for the 20th time, I'm exhausted.

I do not plan to go on cycling until I am completely tired and finished.

Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.