Tyrone Mings Quotes

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

A lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it's hard to mask your basic personality. It's a bit like a relationship. If you're always there, they can't desire you.

I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.

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

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.

Being isolated and on-location can be helpful in terms of being completely dedicated to the work, but somebody like me can also be dangerous in terms of this intense sort of void that you kind of potentially fall into.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

It's a game that just takes so much out of you. Every aspect of your life has to be very narrow, very focused. Everything else has to go away. And because of that, I think it's obviously not healthy. The last thing I'm looking for is sympathy.

I just want to say, if you're going crazy, take a break. I felt overwhelmed by stuff that wasn't satisfying me, things I was supposed to do for my career. I stopped and said, 'Let me get back to the basics.'

When you are talking about, 'I will lose my sanity for real,' that's when it's time to move on.

I really hate relaxing. I've done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to me, idle time is the devil's workshop. I like to focus on something.

I was losing sight of myself and started to get anxiety and stress. You work at such a pace and you don't have time to sit with yourself and think.

I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.

Things in the industry get too competitive. In that pressure, you tend to lose yourself. So, it's important to have someone to turn to and vent out.

I worked all day, every day. I thought about Tinder in the shower and dreamed about it at night. It wasn't just my job - it was my life.

I think that was one of my biggest worries. I didn't want to be so focused on soccer that it became my whole life.

When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

I'm always working. I work wherever I am.

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.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.