Cornelia Parker Quotes

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

If you're consumed only with the big dream, you're going to die because you won't be able to feed yourself or you're going to be losing your job, so you'll just be sitting in your room dreaming, but if you're only holding onto the crap jobs that keep you just above of the water you're going to be unhappy. You're going to be burnt out, washed out.

My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'

I've started confiding in people, other artists mostly, that I hate making 'South Park,' and I always have. It's super stressful. I'm always miserable.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

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

I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was becoming a little bit too much.

Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

I get stressed out really easily.

It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.

I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.

… a job of infinite stress

Stress is a killer.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

The land of burnout is not a place I ever want to go back to.

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

Yes, I go a little bit crazy when I'm not working, which is an issue for me. My background is you go to work; that's what you do.

We work too hard to be miserable.

Dysphoria will always be a painful place.

I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.