David Johansen Quotes

The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.

We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

I'm exhausted almost all the time.

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

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.

I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

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.

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is - well, anything. I just want to sleep. I crash out hard every day at 'Common Law.' I definitely lost a couple years of my life just on the fatigue factor on the first season.

I get this thing every once in a while that I call 'ESS:' emergency sleep situation. I'll get like lead, really fatigued, and I can't move.

I'm quite well-rehearsed in having mental days; being awake at the crack of dawn and still having to be awake late at night.

I haven't been to bed since 1972.

I've gone days without sleeping.

I don't get much sleep, so I have really bad bags under my eyes.

I am used to working long hours with no sleep.

I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

Well, if I don't get at least 16 hours, I'm a basket case.

I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.

We're all a little tired.