Quotes About Stress

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.

It's hard to balance work and family.

I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?

I don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.

A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.

When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.

Work is a form of nervousness.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

The great thing about doing a show in New York is that you can work until the night before.

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

I can't pay my [bills]. I can't go to work. My car is out of gas.

As a leader, people push you. They really want to keep pushing you until you get aggressive. Then they say, "Oh, see, it doesn't work."