Quotes About Stress

When I am tired, it is easy to say I need a backup - and if that only happens every three months, it's not ideal and also difficult for Mr. Backup.

If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.

I never thought about being a cop. I'm kind of sensitive. I don't know if I could handle that job. It's hard to go home every day and be able to still live your own life because some of the stuff you see really affects you.

If I have to do a speech, if there's no way I can get out of it, or if it's something I really should do, I won't sleep the night before. I'll feel ill the entire day leading up to it. I won't be able to eat if it's after a dinner, which makes things even worse.

Not working makes you ill, sad, depressed. It ages you.

I had every stress-related illness you can get.

It's an immense amount of pressure, celebrity itself.

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing in the world.

When you work too much, it affects your health. Then you start working out and dieting. And, more importantly, you miss your family.

I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

I get quite frustrated about a lot of things on a day-to-day basis. I can't help it; it is an impulse with me.

We rushed to finish the album when 'Mad World' became a hit. The pressure was on and it stopped being as enjoyable as it had been; in the end, it wasn't enjoyable at all.

I'm so terrible with holiday shopping. I want to get something truly incredible for everyone on my list. But, in the end I end up with nothing at all.

I think anxiety is the nature of most environments today, and people feel inadequate when they are not able to cope with it.

I fear drama more than films. The amount of work and exhaustion are incomparable.

More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.

I saw people get fired after their eviction. But when I found that if you get evicted, your chances of losing your job increase by 20 percent, that's when it really hit home for me.

I've become increasingly agoraphobic.

Although the fight-or-flight response may have helped primitive man survive, it is deadly to the diver. Underwater problems have to be solved underwater.

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.

All forms of fear produce fatigue.

One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.