H. Jon Benjamin Quotes

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

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

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.

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

I'm not a workaholic!

I think I was probably overworked. I was doing huge tours and having two days off and then going out again. It burned me out.

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.

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.

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

We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

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

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?

I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.

I'm working myself to death.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

I'm in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I love. I wanted to be everything for everybody and do all of that... I think I just really beat myself up until I got really sick and needed surgery, because it was physically manifesting itself.

Thing is, I don't really like free time. People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that.

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'm like everybody else. I get tired sometimes.