Quotes About Exhaustion

Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.

I wasn't expecting a proposal from Aamir that night, especially when he had waited long hours for my shoot to get over and I too was drained after giving back-to-back scenes that involved portraying a lot of mental traumas and crying. As I came out of my shot, he stood in front of me, went down on his knees and proposed marriage.

There's parts of touring I like. I like the actual performance part, but the bit when you're in the airport waiting at the carousel for your bags to come around, I don't like that a bit.

But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.

Without question, I wake every night five times.

The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.

My first trimester I was so exhausted. I could sleep 10 hours, then wake up, look in the mirror and still have eyes like a hound dog! I felt like the life was sucked out of me, no matter how much sleep I got. It was obvious that my body was really busy doing something else and 'beauty sleep' didn't exist anymore!

Around 1978, I got really, really sick of waking up in hotel rooms when I don't know where I am.

South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.

I literally couldn't walk down the street; I slept for 16 hours a day, was in chronic pain, had blackouts, never-ending heart palpitations, unbearable stomach issues, constant headaches - the list goes on.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.

You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.

I love it when, after a day of shooting, I'm so exhausted that my bones hurt.

Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

I remember thinking I couldn't be bothered to feel any emotions any more.

Get a boxer and get him wrestling for a minute or two - the arms get so heavy, filled with blood, they can't even hold them up any more, they can't box.

Sometimes in life you reach your breaking point, when you just can't deal with something anymore.

I like bringing the girls on set, but if I can't do that then the next day I feel I have to be uber-mum to make up for it. Then I'm exhausted and feel like I'm running in fumes.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

It's funny to think that at 22 years old, I was really burned out from being on the road for 10 years.

Doing 'Hedwig' was so hard that I kind of burned out on acting.

I can completely understand that whole burnout thing.

I feel like Rio 2016 was my worst performance, and really my burnout.