Susannah York Quotes

I've always had this hyper kinetic energy, so I don't really need much sleep at night.

I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.

I am an insomniac. I wake up at 6 or 6:30 and get out of bed immediately. The coffee starts right away. Then I get to the computer as quickly as possible. I like to start writing when I'm still half-asleep, in a state between dreaming and waking.

I go to bed early - around 9 P.M. or 10 P.M. - and wake up between 2 A.M. and 5 A.M. and get an extra three hours of work done. Then I have a regular work day. It's very effective.

I don't need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Akshay snores so loudly that I'm usually awake the entire night!

Something is wrong with me - no matter how late I go to sleep, I still wake up really early.

I'm not a big sleeper. It just feels like wasting time. If I wake up, and it's after 5 A.M., I stay up.

Even if I go to sleep late I'm still going to wake up early.

It takes a long time to drag myself out of bed, and at night I'm buzzing. As a young man it was helpful, but now I'd like to be tired when I go to bed and alive in the morning.

I have major sleeping problems. I'd rather be up thinking about things than actually sleeping.

I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

I wake up at 5 a.m. every day and go to bed early.

My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.

I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up early and then, by the time it gets to 10am, you're quite perky and already quite switched on.

I am awake a lot of nights.

I can get a call at 2 A.M., and the person on the other end is like: 'Sorry, did I wake you?' and I'm like: 'No, I'm wide awake.'

It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

I'm not a guy who needs to drink coffee or anything to get myself going in the morning. I wake up, and I'm full of energy.

Unfortunately, I've gotten so conditioned, it's hard to sleep past 4 a.m.

You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep.

On occasion, it's rough for me to sleep because I have a lot of things on my mind, so I'll need to get a little more sleep sometimes. I'm up late because I've got a lot of energy and a lot of things on my mind all the time, and I'm up early 'cause I've got things to do, so that's the only thing. That's how I like it; I like to be busy.

I just tell myself I gotta get up at 8 A.M. I don't even use an alarm clock.

I have trouble going to sleep at night, because you always get the feeling that there is another thing you could do.

Some people might sleep eight hours and wake up exhausted because they're not getting good quality sleep.