Elaine Stritch Quotes

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

My reason for leaving 'Beautiful', because I had such an amazing time on that show, was by the time I left, I had been doing the show for almost two years. I was a little burnt out.

There is mental as well as physical fatigue. You have to cry, scream, keep on repeating the same dialogue till you get it right.

When I wasn't touring I'd be really down, then suddenly after a few weeks of crazy travelling - America, a double headline with Ray Davies in Denmark, TV shows here and just partying... Suddenly I had an acute psychotic breakdown.

I think I was probably overworked. I was doing huge tours and having two days off and then going out again. It burned me out.

You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.

Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.

In the past, before games, I would near enough make myself ill. Nerves and stuff.

The most pressure I've ever felt to be brilliant was in drama school - those were the toughest auditions. I really wanted to prove myself.

I would cry all of the time and I didn't know why! I was having shows and after the show I would go to the room, order a big hamburger and a vanilla shake or something like that... and cry because I was so depressed... I think it was because I was too tired.

I can't work 12 hours a day, every day for too long before it burns out.

Pressure makes me perform better.

On a movie, you often work fourteen-, sixteen-hour days, six days a week, for six months. It is so easy to let up because of fatigue.

I work all the time and find it hard to switch off.

I am used to working long hours with no sleep.

You can't be suspicious 24/7. It's too exhausting.

When you get that tired, it becomes really challenging to keep bringing your best foot forward.

There's no narcotic like exhaustion.

Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.

I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them well, but the cost was that I was chronically overloaded, weary, and short of time for politicking, smoothing ruffled feathers, and simply resting.

I'm tired. I am old and I have never quit pursuing my goals. I am heavily involved in real estate right now, but I am trying to get out of it altogether, I am just tired.

I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.