Lev Grossman Quotes

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

I get sick of saying how hard everything is. It's hard to get up in the morning. Everything's hard. Everything takes effort.

I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.

Travel takes a toll on you.

There are certain times you want to be here and there are certain times you want to just go. And when you go, it's usually so exhausting you have to check into a hospital when you come home!

After six, seven films, I started to get a little tired. Shooting takes a lot out of you.

Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.

Touring for two years is excruciating.

The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.

I went along doing the one-salad-a-night routine for a year. And I remember feeling so tired and depressed and irritable. I had no personal life. I was always flying someplace - weekends, holidays, vacations. Dinners at night were no fun because I couldn't eat.

I love stand up, but every year, the road takes a little more out of you.

… a job of infinite stress

A lot of people don't realize the toll put on activists. There's a very draining element to it.

It's extremely hard work keeping fresh.

At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is - well, anything. I just want to sleep. I crash out hard every day at 'Common Law.' I definitely lost a couple years of my life just on the fatigue factor on the first season.

Yeah, well, it's been a super fun week. And by 'super fun' I mean 'horrible and endless'.

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.

I work all the time and find it hard to switch off.

I am used to working long hours with no sleep.

You can't be suspicious 24/7. It's too exhausting.

When you get that tired, it becomes really challenging to keep bringing your best foot forward.

There's no narcotic like exhaustion.

I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them well, but the cost was that I was chronically overloaded, weary, and short of time for politicking, smoothing ruffled feathers, and simply resting.

Verbs. All of them tiring.

I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.