Charles Bock Quotes

I think I understand why most actors and actresses are insane, because having to go through an emotional roller coaster as your job every day of your life would make somebody absolutely loopy.

When a person is juggling a lot of emotions in a single day, it can take a toll.

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

Being in a person's head for five months, where they're so hateful, is kind of exhausting.

I am very proud of what 'Johnny' achieved in stand-up comedy because he believed entirely in giving an audience the best kick he could. But he was someone who was quite detrimental to my health, both emotionally and physically.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

'Taramani' was a very emotionally draining film for me.

As actors, we exhaust ourselves emotionally and physically, which no one sees.

So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

It was hard not to feel violated [in Stone movie], 'cause I have to go home after walking in these shoes all day. It plays a number on your head. Some days I came home and was really upset; it was hard to see the baby [Jovovich's 2-year-old daughter].

There are things that I am doing apart from films to keep me normal. Otherwise, emotionally, it is very draining.

The business has taken a toll on me.

I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after they've done a really demanding emotional and physical project. I wanted a break, to be honest with you, and I needed to recover.

'Supermodel' was a hard record for me; it was an emotional record to write. I was purging a lot of stuff with that album, and I think the one thing I didn't really consider, that I'd be supporting it for two years and living in that state of mind every night.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

At a certain point I became really frustrated with modeling, like, why do I have to go home after school and get dressed up and put makeup on my face, and then go to a photographer's studio where there's 15 other girls with their books and have to prove myself? A lot of people don't think of it that way, but modeling's a hard job, physically and emotionally.

Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the very situations and thoughts and feelings that make the novel worthwhile, the worse I feel, and the more likely I am to be severely depressed when the book is finished. There is no avoiding this: it is the result of attempting to tell all you know, to reach for the stars, to write what matters.

Stress is a form of suffering.

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head...

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.