Suzanne Collins Quotes

I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

I'm tired a lot. I travel a lot.

I had just left Yes and had done a concert at Crystal Palace, South London, with a choir and orchestra playing my solo album 'Journey To The Centre Of The Earth' when I had my heart attack. That day, I hadn't been to bed for four days. I don't remember much. I felt very numb during the day and airy, which is the best way to describe it.

I am really, really tired.

After two kids, I hit the pillow and go straight to sleep.

I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.

Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don't take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.

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.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

I used to stay up, stupidly, to work, and I'd just eat to keep my eyes open. I wasn't even hungry - it was just a way to power through.

Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.

I feel burnout comes as a result of consistent over-simulation.

I am used to working long hours with no sleep.

There's no narcotic like exhaustion.

I wandered around not knowing what I was doing in The Great Waldo Pepper and feeling pretty lost, and they rightly cut my part down. I don't think I was in very good emotional shape. I think I was a bit of a mess. I'd done about six movies back-to-back, and was in a state of complete exhaustion.

We're all a little tired.

I think I existed on four hours sleep a night for four years.

For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.

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.

Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.