Donny Deutsch Quotes

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea.

Whenever you start a new job, it's always a bit daunting, the unknown.

Life is stressful.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

I'm incapable of truly relaxing. I remember when I was younger and less wise or experienced, actors that I knew would always talk about jobs ending and wondering whether they were ever going to work again. Now that's my life.

I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.

The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

I am whelmed, and not overly whelmed, just whelmed about a lot of facets in life - just how fragile life is and the different challenges you have in life, phobias about things.

If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

Literally, I don't know where life is gonna go from one day to the next, and that's as exciting as it is tiring.

I do find real life a bit overwhelming sometimes. I'm totally chaotic.

I've had a couple of family members deal with cancer, and I remember that moment where they're going into surgery, and you just have no idea what's going to happen, and it's really scary.

The scariest thing is to go into a new situation for myself, and yet I have a job where I do that every few months, meet a hundred new people, and then have to perform in a very highly pressurized environment.

When you can't cope with change, you feel overwhelmed, and you look for a simple solution.

I was so stressed, man. When I was 17, I was so worried about what the hell was going to happen.

I think threat of change is pretty potent. In humans, blood pressure doesn't go up when people get laid off: it goes up when they first hear rumors that layoffs are coming at the end of the month.

Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.