Quotes About Stress

When you are the lead, you feel that if you mess it up the whole film can fall around you.

I don't get time to read often - the last hour before bed is somehow always spent clearing up the day's mess instead.

You can't have a mid-life crisis in the airline industry because every day is a crisis.

When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.

In 2010, I was working in a bank in Lagos. It was a crazy job with long working hours. I had to leave for the office by 5:30 A.M., and sometimes I wouldn't be back until midnight.

I got my first migraine on my first day of work in TV in 2001... it was debilitating.

I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.

There have been too many miles on the road. I have been doing six or seven exhibitions a week, two or three a night sometimes.

You never really know when you're going a hundred miles a minute what you're doing to your body.

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

There's nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don't know anything, and there's a million people, and no one's communicating.

You do your job, you come home, and then like try and drown out the rest. I think it's a really important mindset to have, especially if stuff starts quickly and you're young. Because the rest of it is scary.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.

Mine is a job that never ends, a function where it is almost impossible to set aside time to rest or take a breather.

Being a comedian, all the stress is there in the moment of doing it. The rest of it is mint: you hang out with your mates, go to the arcades, go to the cinema in the daytime, it's like being a teenager all the time.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute.

I don't think you can expect someone to be personally attacked day after day, minute by minute, and sit back.

If we want to reduce stress and tension, we need to be aware that we've been running a lot. True happiness isn't found in success, money, fame, or power. True happiness should be found in the here and now. With that kind of insight, you can truly relax.

When I go to parties, people seem to be enjoying themselves. But when I look beneath the surface, I see so much anxiety and suffering there.

However brain functioning is measured, these studies tell us nothing about whether the observed anomalies were present at birth or whether they resulted from trauma, chronic stress or other early-childhood experiences.

The familial and emotional components may be most relevant for a child who is traumatized by physical abuse or other forms of stress at home.

Incredible how rapidly the best relationship, if it is stressed beyond its capacity, wears thin and finally exhausts itself.

With Sue as companion he could have renounced his ambitions with a smile. Without her it was inevitable that the reaction from the long strain to which he had subjected himself should affect him disastrously.

Her suspense was terrible.