Steve Coogan Quotes

Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.

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

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

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.

When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.

I don't think I can do this anymore.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

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

The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I'm there in my makeup, and that's getting a little tiring.

That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it's something you can't even explain. It's just doing something you have absolutely no passion for.

I can tell you with authority that when I'm exhausted, when I'm running on empty, I'm the worst version of myself.

I think, sometimes, you can just get really burnt out on something you enjoy doing and feel like the sponge is completely wrung dry.

There is mental as well as physical fatigue. You have to cry, scream, keep on repeating the same dialogue till you get it right.

After a full morning working on 'TBC,' I don't feel like talking to any guys for a few hours.

The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics.

I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread.

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.

Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.

I'm not Superman. Eventually, the grind gets to you. If you're away from your friends, you're not traveling with anyone you like, and you're doing stuff that doesn't creatively stimulate you, that's when it becomes a job.

I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.

When I came off the Halloween movies, they were very stressful movies to make. That had been four very stressful years. I'm happy with how they turned out, but getting the end results took so much fighting with people and so much craziness, that at the end of it I was so burnt out.