Chyler Leigh Quotes

I never feel like I should have any time free.

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.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

Life is stressful.

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.

… a job of infinite stress

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.

Honestly, I really just think I work too hard to feel any pressure.

I'm supposed to be everywhere all the time!

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

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

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

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

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

My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I'm not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself.

More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

When I'm at work, I'm remembering what I forgot to do for the kids, and when I'm with the kids, I'm remembering what I forgot to do at work.

Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

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.

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

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.