Clive Standen Quotes

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

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

Don't worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.

During finals week, I don't get a lot of sleep, and I tell myself, 'I can't do this anymore.'

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.

Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake

Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

You don't have time to dwell on what is going on in the games.

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.

People are trying to grab every part of you, so it's really hard to focus.

I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out.

It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.

I am tired of hustling.

It's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

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've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

I might just stop talking again and not do interviews.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

I love stand up, but every year, the road takes a little more out of you.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone.