Brendan Fehr Quotes

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.

I've been pretending to be a man that I'm not my entire life. I've been pretending to be strong when I felt weak, confident when I felt insecure and tough when really I was hurting. And I can tell you right now that it is exhausting.

Honestly, the pains of humanity have been draining me.

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

I'm not Superman. Eventually, the grind gets to you. If you're away from your friends, you're not traveling with anyone you like, and you're doing stuff that doesn't creatively stimulate you, that's when it becomes a job.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

It just goes to show that what one person considers a "bad attitude" might actually just be total frustration over being pushed beyond the brink of one's mental and physical endurance.

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

I come home more exhausted after a day of emotional work on set than I've ever had in any sporting event I've played or anything. It's draining. But it's also part of the fun.

And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful.

Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad

Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.

In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They just are somebody.

My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!

You need to be sharp the whole race, and eventually you start getting mentally tired and make little mistakes over and over.

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you get to see what their skin is like. The other good thing is you get to leave it.

People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.