Frank Lowy Quotes

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

I'm working myself to death.

For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.

I used to stay up, stupidly, to work, and I'd just eat to keep my eyes open. I wasn't even hungry - it was just a way to power through.

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going.

It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

I am tired of hustling.

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.

You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery.

I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.