Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Quotes

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 have not had tragic incidences in my life that have rocked my personal being. The thing that really has been my biggest enemy in this world has been pressure. And people. People who I love. People who look at me differently. The pressure is tough, man. I'm not gonna lie. It's the hardest part. Easily.

I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

When you're younger, the mental strain of being a successful actor, jumping from role to role, and trying to have some kind of personal life, can really be terrible.

A lot of actors I had worked with seemed mentally unbalanced. It's only a matter of time before I go nuts myself.

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.

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.

It's quite hard when you do fail and you don't achieve what you want to achieve.

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

I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

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

You get burned out very quickly. You can sprint 100 yards, but you cant sprint a mile, and these jobs are all sprints.

The General is suffering from mental saddle sores.

... too emotionally strung out.

People get tired of unresolved issues.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.