Michael Lehmann Quotes

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

You're never going to get used to walking into a room and have people screaming at you. There's a lot of things that come with the life you could get lost in. But you have to let it be what it is. I've learnt not to take everything too seriously.

I do find real life a bit overwhelming sometimes. I'm totally chaotic.

Some people feel pressure; some people don't.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.

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.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

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.

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

I always have stress.

There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives.

When I was a kid, I was mostly pretty sane. I've gotten more hypochondriacal.

Almost everyone seems to worry about something, and yet, we rarely talk about worry as a problem. Maybe that is because worry is so integrated into the way we have come to live and be in the world that we don't even notice it.

I'm trying to stay normal, that's all. But it's hard.

I've gone past the stage where I feel pressure.