Moeen Ali Quotes

I needed to step back from cricket, international cricket in particular, just to get away from the scrutiny and intensity of everything. I love it but it was too much for me.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.

I am tired of hustling.

The President is suffering from nervous exhaustion….He needs to rest for a considerable time.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

I don't really compartmentalize well. I'm in a state of anxiety and panic a lot, but it's for different reasons. It used to be because I had nothing going on, but I work very hard and there doesn't seem to be an end to it.

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

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.

You can't go over every beat, every second, and worry about how you can do it better - it'll eat you alive.

I've seen a lot of shows, but I can't possibly cram in everything that I'd like to, and it's exhausting trying to.

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

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

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.

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked about the next move. So I took some time out. I thought either I do this now or in 10 years' time I'll end up in the Priory.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

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.

The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

My life is so active, and I'm fighting the whole day that I don't have any aggressiveness or any energy outside of fighting. I'm the most chill couch potato you could ever meet.

I'm working myself to death.

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

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.