Antoni Porowski Quotes

I have great mood swings, maybe because of playing lots of different characters as I do. I'm like a gymnast whose muscles get too stretched. I've got better at it, but I have a lot of emotional energy.

Doing 'Hedwig' was so hard that I kind of burned out on acting.

When I start getting embroiled in heated debates and feeling stressed, I just turn everything off and disconnect from the world. I simply tell my colleagues and friends that I am not well and need to cancel all meetings for a day or more. I take it easy - go for a long hike, take a vacation somewhere, or just stay at home and read.

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds.

Since I was young, I've been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.

Being an actor can be a cruel experience because there is no cooling-down period. You can be involved in something that's incredibly intense, but then it's a wrap and you've finished and you go home. I find it difficult to complete a job and then return to reality and find my healthy place.

I'm definitely a homebody, so when I have an emotional day on set, I have to go home, take a bath, and go to bed.

There was one day where I had to be hysterical all day, then of course it's going to affect you. You're going to go home and feel drained, or feel like you need to let off steam.

I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.

I've learned to take care of myself. You know, I try to stay conscious of whatever my energy is at all times, really. I mean, I come home from work, and, depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate, or play guitar, or watch some 'Monty Python.'

I always thought that it's important to have other things, not just work, and I often even suggested my managers take some time off and come back fresh and ready to fight again.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

I take a breath when I have to.

I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world.

I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on stage, the fear is gone. I've exhausted myself. It just dissipates.

Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been helping me a lot, too.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

If you have a life which is adrenaline-charged all week long because you're a powerful CEO, or you have responsibilities and you're committed to the people you look after, it's very difficult on weekends to sit around the garden. So you probably look for something which gives you the same sort of adrenaline buzz.