Michael Cunningham Quotes

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

I don't think I can do this anymore.

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

At this very moment, I don't feel I will be able to handle what's coming.

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

Life is stressful.

Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

I stress out a lot. Being a perfectionist doesn't help with that!

I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked about the next move. So I took some time out. I thought either I do this now or in 10 years' time I'll end up in the Priory.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

Usually when I get nervous and don't know how to prepare for something, I just don't do anything at all, which is not necessarily the best idea.

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.

You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'