Simon Cowell Quotes

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

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.

I have done so many things and the pressure is so great. I am sure I have been a good deal dehumanized.

I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes, I'm just not mad at it.

Women get exhausted and beat down, and you just want to cry.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

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

My shrink said to me once when I used to get really overwhelmed and super depressed because I was really run down between kids and the company and there was just so much going on - she said, 'You know, you have to look after you in order for you to look after everybody else.'

You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more.

I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.

I'm not giving up on life. I'm giving up on today.

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.

Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.

There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making me not even care about writing. There are days when I wake up so angry I can barely speak, and also days when I am so sad.

Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in.

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

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.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

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.

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.