Yancy Butler Quotes

I feel like I'm 1,000. I don't feel I'm young enough a lot of the time.

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

I am tired of hustling.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

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.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

I'm working myself to death.

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

You can't ask someone to act middle-aged. Someone has to bring their own fatigue to it.

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

I don't feel like I'm slowing down.

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

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

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

First year, I was in a real high pace running around and I couldn't pace myself.

I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them well, but the cost was that I was chronically overloaded, weary, and short of time for politicking, smoothing ruffled feathers, and simply resting.

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.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.

I got a lot happening, a whole lot, and it's not always easy being me.

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

In my fifties, I was still in creation mode. Now I have more of a responsibility to step back and mentor and offer wisdom, offer sign posts on the path.

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

I work myself into the ground.